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One of 75 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 1983 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Irondale Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
The listing
- Address. Port Townsend Bay and Admirally Inlet, Port Townsend, 98339
- When was it listed? July 1983
- Category. district
- Also known as. Eastern Jefferson County MRA
- Census division. Oak Bay-Port Ludlow
- National Register reference number. 83003326 - 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
40 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Irondale Historic District between 1992 and 2019, burning about 25 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 15 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 7 September 1992 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.1 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 26 September 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 25 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 22 September 2014 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | BIG ROCK 14 |
| 2 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 13 September 1992 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 12 September 1997 | Natural | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 16 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Irondale Historic District: 14 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Diatomite, Iron. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chimacum Valley | Iron | Prospect | ||
| Irondale | Diatomite | Occurrence | ||
| Chimacum Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Crown Zellerbach Hadlock Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Elkins Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Hadlock Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Hastings Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Hunt Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Irondale Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Puget Sound Surfacers Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
1 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Port Townsend, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1999: 1 lightning. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1999 | Lightning | Port Townsend | $15,500 | A house was struck by lightning, causing structural and electrical damage. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Irondale Jail | 0.2 miles | 1983 | |
| Capt. Peter Shibles House | 0.5 miles | 1983 | |
 | Methodist Epscopal Church of Port Hadlock | 0.6 miles | 1983 |
 | Hattie Williams House | 0.6 miles | 1983 |
 | Galster House | 0.9 miles | 1983 |
| Chimacum Post Office | 2.2 miles | 1983 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 83003326 in Record Group 79. |
| Jefferson County | All 75 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.