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One of 21 National Register listings published here for San Juan County · listed in 1986 · category: Building · built in 1908.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Doe Bay General Store and Post Office
Built in 1908. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. End of County Rd., Doe Bay, Orcas Island, 98279
- When was it listed? May 1986
- Category. building
- Census division. Orcas
- When was it built? 1908
- National Register reference number. 86001017 - 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
12 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Doe Bay General Store and Post Office between 2000 and 2020, burning about 3 acres in total. 2 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 | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
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 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | EAGLE LAKE |
| 27 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | CLARK IS |
| 22 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 9 August 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 24 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Northwest Region-Department of Natural Resources | POINT LAWRENCE |
| 21 August 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | EAGLE CLIFF |
| 14 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Northwest Region-Department of Natural Resources | SHADOW |
| 3 July 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | MORAN |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 17 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Doe Bay General Store and Post Office: 11 occurrences, 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Chromium, Platinum, Clay. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orcas Island | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Ready Cash Claim | Chromium, Platinum | Past Producer | 1917, 1918 | |
| Nellie Kelly | Chromium | Occurrence | ||
| Nellie Kelly Claim | Chromium | Occurrence | Chromite | |
| Ready Cash | Chromium | Occurrence | ||
| Ready Cash | Chromium | Past Producer | 1917 | |
| Chuckanut Lime Co. Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | ||
| Entrance Mountain Deposit | Limestone, General | Occurrence | ||
| Flaherty Deposit No. 1 | Limestone, General | Occurrence | ||
| Langdon Deposit South Part | Limestone, General | Past Producer |
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
5 within 8 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Alderbrook Farmhouse | 1.2 miles | 1985 |
 | Moran State Park | 2.9 miles | 2013 |
 | Rosario | 4.3 miles | 1978 |
 | Emmanuel Episcopal Church | 6.9 miles | 1994 |
 | Crow Valley School | 7.8 miles | 1987 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 86001017 in Record Group 79. |
| San Juan County | All 21 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.