Carnegie Library

Built in 1911 (Prairie School architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The Carnegie Library is a historic building still in use as the Hoquiam Timberland Library in Hoquiam, Washington.”
Wikipedia article Carnegie Library (Hoquiam, Washington), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Grays Harbor County · listed in 1982 · category: Building · built in 1911, Prairie School architecture, by Claude and Starck.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 621 K St., Hoquiam, 98550
When was it listed? August 1982
Category. building
Also known as. Carnegie Libraries of Washington TR
Census division. Aberdeen-Hoquiam
When was it built? 1911
Architectural style. Prairie School architecture
Architect. Claude and Starck
National Register reference number. 82004216 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

35 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Carnegie Library between 1992 and 2020, burning about 28 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Debris and open burning	8
Recreation and ceremony	7
Other causes	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Smoking	2
Fireworks	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Natural	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
7 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	JEFFERSON
5 September 1992	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
19 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Pacific Cascade Region-DNR	HUNTLEY
19 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	BISHOP
1 September 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	ENDERSON ROAD
8 August 2017	Other causes	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	NORTH RIVER
6 August 1998	Smoking	1.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
5 August 2019	Other causes	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	BRECKINRIDGE

Every fire recorded in Grays Harbor County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Carnegie Library: 12 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Gold, Platinum, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Cow Point Placer	Gold	Occurrence
Hoquiam	Gold, Platinum	Occurrence	Beach Placer
Hoquiam Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
East Aberdeen	Silica	Past Producer
West Aberdeen	Silica	Past Producer
Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Hagara Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Stafford Creek Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Grays Harbor County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Masonic Temple-Hoquiam	under 500 feet	2007
Seventh Street Theater	under 500 feet	1987
American Veterans Building-Hoquiam	0.1 miles	2011
US Post Office-Hoquiam Main	0.2 miles	1991
Lachlin McTaggert House	0.3 miles	1985
Polson, F. Arnold, House and Polson, Alex, Grounds	0.3 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82004216 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Grays Harbor County	All 22 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.