William Bisson House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

One of 215 National Register listings published here for Pierce County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.

Sources: 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.
Listed as. Bisson, William, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Washington and Emery Sts., South Prairie, 98385
When was it listed? February 1982
Category. building
Census division. Buckley
National Register reference number. 82004276 - 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

62 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of William Bisson House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 79 acres in total. None 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	16
Recreation and ceremony	16
Debris and open burning	15
Other causes	4
Fireworks	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Arson/incendiarism	2

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
9 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	156TH SREET
7 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	SOUTH PRAIRIE CREEK
6 September 2014	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	CASCADIA
5 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	186TH
29 September 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
24 September 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
21 September 1994	Other causes	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
18 September 1992	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Every fire recorded in Pierce 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 William Bisson House: 13 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Flagstone. 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
Walker Quarry	Flagstone	Past Producer
Burlington Northern Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Carbon Ridge Blowdown	Stone	Past Producer
Clearwest-Westfork Pit	Stone	Past Producer
Road 0602 Pit 1818	Stone	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gregg Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Ogle Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Road 194 End Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Pierce County

Storms near this property

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Prairie, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2017: 1 heavy rain, 1 debris flow. 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
November 2008	Heavy Rain	South Prairie	$800,000	Several roads in eastern Pierce county were washed out by heavy rain.
March 2017	Debris Flow	South Prairie	-	The Tacoma News Tribune reported a landslide near Buckley, WA at 239 Ave E and South Prairie Rd.

Every storm recorded in Pierce 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
Wilkeson Arch	3.0 miles	2000
Holy Trinity Orthodox Church	3.3 miles	1989
Wilkeson Community House	3.5 miles	2013
Wilkeson School	3.7 miles	1976
Coke Ovens	3.8 miles	1974
Walker Cut Stone Company	3.8 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82004276 in Record Group 79.
Pierce County	All 215 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.