Deception Pass

Built in 1935. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“Deception Pass Bridge is the common name for two two-lane bridges on Washington State Route 20 connecting Whidbey Island in Island County, to Fidalgo Island in Skagit County, in the U.S. state of Washington. It was a Washington State Highways project, and included project elements built by young workers from the Civilian Conservation Corps.”
Wikipedia article Deception Pass Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 33 National Register listings published here for Skagit County · listed in 1982 · category: Structure · built in 1935.

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 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Rte. 20, Anacortes, 98277
When was it listed? July 1982
Category. structure
Also known as. Historic Bridges/Tunnels in Washington State TR
Census division. Anacortes
When was it built? 1935
National Register reference number. 82004285 - 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

73 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Deception Pass between 1992 and 2020, burning about 46 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 4 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
Recreation and ceremony	31
Debris and open burning	11
Smoking	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Arson/incendiarism	4
Other causes	4
Natural	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Fireworks	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
7 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Northwest Region-Department of Natural Resources	GINNETT RD
7 September 1993	Recreation and ceremony	2.3 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
6 September 2012	Smoking	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	SLEEPER
5 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	CORNET
3 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
2 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
2 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
17 September 2005	Fireworks	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	SKAGIT ISLAND CANDLE

Every fire recorded in Skagit County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 26 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 26 workings within 5 miles of Deception Pass: 10 past producers, 6 occurrences, 5 producers, 4 unknowns. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Copper, REE. 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
Allan Island	Stone	Occurrence
Fidalgo Island	Silver, Gold, Copper	Occurrence	Underground
Fidalgo Island	Copper, Gold	Prospect
Henni Pit and Mill	REE	Producer
Island Mine	Copper, Magnesite, Iron	Occurrence
Matrix Property	Gold, Copper	Occurrence	Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Copper, Pyrite
Mountain Home	Manganese	Occurrence
Mountain Home Claim	Copper, Manganese	Occurrence	Bementite, Chalcopyrite, Copper, Pyrite
Stephens	Copper, Silver, Gold	Past Producer
Anacortes Quarry and Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Skagit 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
Burrows Island Light Station	5.9 miles	2024
La Conner Historic District	6.8 miles	1974
LA MERCED	7.3 miles	1990
Anacortes Public Library	7.6 miles	1977
Causland Park	7.7 miles	1981
Fraternal Order of Eagles Hall-Anacortes	7.8 miles	2019

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82004285 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Skagit County	All 33 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.