Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
From the record
“The Yakima Valley Transportation Company was an interurban electric railroad headquartered in Yakima, Washington. It was operator of the city's streetcar system from 1907-1947, and it also provided the local bus service from the 1920s until 1957.”
Wikipedia article Yakima Valley Transportation Company, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 73 National Register listings published here for Yakima County · listed in 1992 · category: District.
National Register reference number.84004012- 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
19 since 2000
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Yakima Valley Transportation Company
between 2000 and 2019, burning about 1,741 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
Fireworks
9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
4
Debris and open burning
2
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
Other causes
1
Natural
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
14 workings within 5 miles of Yakima Valley Transportation Company: 9 past producers, 5 occurrences.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Graphite, Diatomite. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Yakima, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1999 and 2010: 3 lightning, 3 flash flood, 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind.
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.
Strong winds from thunderstorms blew down around 100 trees along Highway 410 one mile west of the junction with Highway 12. Power lines were also downed. At the same time high winds peeled back a metal roof 9 miles west of the Highway 12 intersection.
Strong winds associated with a thunderstorm knocked down several trees, and knocked out power to about 750 customers. A weather spotter five miles east of Yakima reported a wind gust to 55 MPH at 4:59 PM PST. The Yakima ASOS at the Yakima airport reported a peak wind gust to 53 MPH at 4:54 PM PST. The property damage from this event is estimated at $2,000.
A weather spotter reported .50 inches of rain in 30 minutes in Yakima from a nearly stationary storm. This resulted in deep water on 56th Avenue and Summitview in Yakima, with cars stalling out and forcing a lane closure. During the storm, 60 Pacific Power customers lost electricity.
Lightning struck a power substation west of the Central Washington fairgrounds early in the morning interrupting power to 4000 homes for 5 hours. These storms produced over 400 strokes of cloud-to-ground lightning and started 40 small fires in the Wenatchee National Forest.
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.
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.
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