BlockFrom the record
One of 21 National Register listings published here for San Juan County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Orcas Hotel
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. In Orcas, Orcas, 98280
- When was it listed? August 1982
- Category. building
- Census division. Orcas
- National Register reference number. 82004284 - 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
22 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Orcas Hotel between 1992 and 2020, burning about 10 acres in total. 3 started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2019 | Other causes | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | DEER HARBOR |
| 16 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | CROW VALLEY |
| 1 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Northwest Region-Department of Natural Resources | CLAY FARM RD |
| 9 August 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 6 August 1997 | Natural | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 3 August 2005 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 27 August 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 25 August 1996 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 19 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Orcas Hotel: 10 past producers, 9 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Feldspar. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deer Harbor Feldspar Deposit | Feldspar | Occurrence | ||
| Humphrey Head Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Mcgraw-Kittinger Deposit | Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Lopez Redi-Mix Pit and Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Shoal Bay Pit No. 2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Quarry | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Biendle Deposit | Limestone, General | Occurrence | ||
| Caldwell Point Deposit | Limestone, General | Occurrence | ||
| Cliff Island Deposit | Limestone, General | Past Producer | ||
| Crane Island Deposit | Limestone, General | Occurrence |
Storms near this property
1 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Orcas, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2004: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Orcas | $25,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew a tree into a cabin, knocking down a wall and damaging parts of the interior. |
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 milesOther 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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Little Red Schoolhouse | 2.0 miles | 1973 |
| Tharald Homestead | 2.7 miles | 2002 | |
 | Rosario | 4.7 miles | 1978 |
 | Crow Valley School | 4.8 miles | 1987 |
 | San Juan County Courthouse | 5.5 miles | 1984 |
 | Port Stanley School | 5.9 miles | 1994 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 82004284 in Record Group 79. |
| San Juan County | All 21 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.