Naval Lodge Elks Building

Built in 1927. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The Naval Lodge Elks Building, also known as Naval Lodge No. 353 BPOE Temple is a historic building located at 131 East First Street, Port Angeles, Washington. It was first envisioned on September 28, 1896 when the city leaders of Port Angeles, Washington met with members of the Navy to found Naval Lodge No. 353 of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.”
Wikipedia article Naval Lodge Elks Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Clallam County · listed in 1986 · category: Building · built in 1927.

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. 131 E. First St., Port Angeles, 98362
When was it listed? May 1986
Category. building
Census division. Port Angeles
When was it built? 1927
National Register reference number. 86000956 - 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 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Naval Lodge Elks Building between 1992 and 2020, burning about 448 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
Recreation and ceremony	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Debris and open burning	7
Arson/incendiarism	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Fireworks	2
Smoking	2
Natural	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
30 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Olympic National Park	PARKWAY
17 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	FREDRICKSON
1 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	POWERLINE FIRE
5 August 2003	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
31 August 1992	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
3 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
26 August 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
26 August 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Every fire recorded in Clallam County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 28 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Naval Lodge Elks Building: 23 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Silver, Stone. 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
Lady Norma	Manganese	Unknown	1956
Port Angeles Quarry	Flagstone	Past Producer
Morse Creek Pit	Stone	Past Producer
Port Angeles	Gold, Silver	Occurrence	Pyrite
Port Angeles	Gold, Silver	Prospect
Rains Pit	Stone	Past Producer
Old Horseman Mine	Gold	Past Producer
Aldwell Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Baublits Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Black Diamond Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Clallam 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
Port Angeles Carnegie Library	under 500 feet	2011
U.S. Post Office	0.2 miles	1983
Clallam County Courthouse	0.2 miles	1987
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church	0.2 miles	1987
Joseph Paris House	0.3 miles	1987
Masonic Temple	0.4 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86000956 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clallam County	All 43 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.