Photograph of Ashford Mansion — Photograph by Benjamin Cody, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Ashford House

Built in 1903 (Colonial Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“The Ashford Mansion, also known as the Ashford House, is a turn of the 20th century residence located in Ashford, Washington. The house was built in 1903, in the Colonial Revival style by Cora Ashford, for whom the town of Ashford is also named.”
Wikipedia article Ashford Mansion, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 215 National Register listings published here for Pierce County · listed in 1984 · category: Building · built in 1903, Colonial Revival architecture.

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 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Off WA 5, Ashford, 98304
When was it listed? August 1984
Category. building
Census division. Eatonville
When was it built? 1903
Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 84003560 - 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

50 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Ashford House between 1994 and 2020, burning about 16 acres in total. 3 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
Recreation and ceremony	29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Smoking	4
Debris and open burning	3
Natural	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Other causes	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
4 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	SKATE CREEK ROAD
25 September 1994	Smoking	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
22 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
21 September 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Gifford Pinchot National Forest	COPPER
2 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	BEAVER HILL
2 September 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	SKATE CREEK
16 September 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
15 September 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	KIBBELS

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Ashford House: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Messler Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past 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.

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
Peter L. and Emma Hershey Homestead	1.6 miles	2007
Nisqually Entrance Historic District	5.3 miles	1991
Gobbler's Knob Fire Lookout	5.7 miles	1991
Lake George Patrol Cabin	6.2 miles	1991
South Puyallup River Bridge	7.1 miles	1991
Tahoma Vista Comfort Station	7.2 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84003560 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.