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Photograph of Tenino Stone Company Quarry
Photograph by Joe Mabel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Tenino Stone Company Quarry

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“The Tenino Stone Company Quarry, at City Park in Tenino, Washington, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1983.”

Wikipedia article Tenino Stone Company Quarry, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 68 National Register listings published here for Thurston County · listed in 1983 · category: Site.

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 site as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. City Park, Tenino, 98589
  • When was it listed? July 1983
  • Category. site
  • Census division. Thurston South
  • National Register reference number. 83003355 - 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

102 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 102 fires within 5 miles of Tenino Stone Company Quarry between 1992 and 2020, burning about 305 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Recreation and ceremony13
Railroad operations and maintenance11
Equipment and vehicle use6
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking2
Fireworks2
Arson/incendiarism2
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
9 September 1996Other causesunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
7 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMCINTOSH SOUTH
3 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
29 September 1999Smokingunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
27 September 1992Debris and open burning4.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
23 September 1995Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
21 September 1998Railroad operations and maintenance5.5 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Every fire recorded in Thurston County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Tenino Stone Company Quarry: 13 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Flagstone, Clay, Peat. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Army QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Bucoda PitClay, PeatPast Producer
Hercules QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
Western QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
Crescent Well PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Crowder PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Johnson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Maytown PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sandymere PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Scatter Creek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Thurston County

Storms near this property

1 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tenino, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2004: 1 tornado. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2004Tornado (F1)Tenino$50,000A tornado damaged a barn, some trees, and a nearby apartment.

Every storm recorded in Thurston 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Tenino Downtown Historic District0.2 miles2004
Tenino Depot0.4 miles1974
Colvin House2.4 miles1988
Ticknor School4.0 miles1990
Seatco Prison Site4.3 miles1975
Millersylvania State Park5.4 miles2009

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 83003355 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Thurston CountyAll 68 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.