Auburn Public Library

Built in 1914. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The Auburn Public Library is a former library building located in Auburn, Washington listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Auburn Carnegie library is a rectangular 2-story brick building with a cast concrete foundation.”
Wikipedia article Auburn Public Library (Washington), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 324 National Register listings published here for King County · listed in 1982 · category: Building · built in 1914.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 306 Auburn Ave., Auburn, 98001
When was it listed? August 1982
Category. building
Also known as. Carnegie Libraries of Washington TR
Census division. Federal Way-Auburn
When was it built? 1914
National Register reference number. 82004221 - 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

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Auburn Public Library in 2012, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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
Arson/incendiarism	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
2 September 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	G.R.C.C.

Every fire recorded in King County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Auburn Public Library: 17 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
American Concrete	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Auburn Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Bremmeyer Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Heidinger Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Kent Highlands Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Kent Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Main Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Main Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in King County

Storms near this property

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Auburn, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2013: 1 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Auburn	$25,000	A tree and power lines fell across cars in a parking lot at Green River Community College in Auburn. Classes were canceled for the rest of the day due to a power outage.
September 2009	Lightning	Auburn	$20,000	Lightning struck a tree next to a home, causing damage to the home's siding and much of the electronics inside.

Every storm recorded in King 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
Auburn Post Office	under 500 feet	2000
Oscar Blomeen House	0.1 miles	1991
Masonic Temple-Auburn	0.2 miles	2015
Aaron Neely Sr. Mansion	2.4 miles	1974
Mary Olson Farm	2.7 miles	2001
Jovita Land Company Model Home-Corbett House	3.3 miles	2004

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82004221 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
King County	All 324 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.