Sidney Williams House

Built in 1890. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

One of 215 National Register listings published here for Pierce County · listed in 1984 · category: Building · built in 1890.

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.
Listed as. Williams, Sidney, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 15003 E. Elm St., Sumner, 98022
When was it listed? October 1984
Category. building
When was it built? 1890
National Register reference number. 84000179 - 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

14 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Sidney Williams House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 137 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Debris and open burning	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	2
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
8 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	132 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	FISH
3 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest	not named
17 September 2008	Smoking	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	TP SQUASH
29 August 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
21 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.4 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	5203 ROAD
1 August 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
9 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	WAGON
6 July 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	MAIN LINE BRIDGE

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Sidney Williams House: 5 past producers, 2 prospects, 2 producers, 2 occurrences. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Aluminum, Gold. 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
Enumclaw Deposit	Aluminum, Potassium, Copper, Gold, Kaolin, Sulfur	Occurrence	1934
White River	Gold, Silica, Silver	Producer
White River	Silica	Past Producer
White River B	Sulfur	Occurrence
Enumclaw Alunite Prospect	Aluminum	Prospect
Enumclaw Alunite Prospect	Aluminum	Prospect
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Nursery Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Canton Creek Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Gold Hill Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Pierce 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84000179 in Record Group 79.
Pierce County	All 215 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.