Burlington Carnegie Library

Built in 1916. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

One of 33 National Register listings published here for Skagit County · listed in 1982 · category: Building · built in 1916.

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.
Address. 901 Fairhaven St., Burlington, 98233
When was it listed? August 1982
Category. building
Also known as. Carnegie Libraries of Washington TR
Census division. Burlington
When was it built? 1916
National Register reference number. 82004286 - 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

28 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Burlington Carnegie Library between 1993 and 2019, burning about 17 acres in total. 2 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
Recreation and ceremony	11
Fireworks	6
Debris and open burning	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Natural	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
8 August 1993	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
5 August 1998	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
3 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
3 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
29 August 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
26 August 2017	Recreation and ceremony	1.2 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	BIG ROCK
24 August 2002	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
23 August 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	CREST ADVANTAGE

Every fire recorded in Skagit County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 46 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 46 workings within 5 miles of Burlington Carnegie Library: 21 unknowns, 11 producers, 11 past producers, 2 occurrences. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Manganese, Asbestos. 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
Burlington	Asbestos	Past Producer
Burlington	Stone	Occurrence
Burlington	Palladium	Unknown
Tilon	Clay	Past Producer
Belleville	Manganese	Prospect	1940
Belleville Property	Manganese	Occurrence	Pyrolusite
Dept. of Highways	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown
Ianicki Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Northwest Talc and Magnesium Co.	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown
Sedro Woolley	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown

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
President Hotel	3.9 miles	2010
Lincoln Theater and Commercial Block	4.1 miles	1987
US Post Office-Sedro Woolley Main	4.3 miles	1991
Hoogdal School	6.4 miles	2024
Northern State Hospital	6.8 miles	2010
Skagit City School	7.6 miles	1977

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82004286 in Record Group 79.
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.