George E. Birge House

Built in 1890 (Queen Anne style architecture in the United States). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“Birge House is a historical residence located in the Edison District of Centralia, Washington and has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1986. The Queen Anne-style home was built by George Birge in the mid-1890s.”
Wikipedia article George E. Birge House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 33 National Register listings published here for Lewis County · listed in 1986 · category: Building · built in 1890, Queen Anne style architecture in the United States.

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.
Listed as. Birge, George E., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 715 E St., Centralia, 98531
When was it listed? December 1986
Category. building
Census division. Centralia-Chehalis
When was it built? 1890
Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
National Register reference number. 86003375 - 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

48 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of George E. Birge House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 44 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Recreation and ceremony	8
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Natural	2
Other causes	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Fireworks	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Smoking	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
9 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
6 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
28 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.6 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	SCATTER FIRE
22 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
1 September 2000	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
5 August 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	ELIZABETH
31 August 2019	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	GRAF STRIKE
30 August 2019	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	JOPPISH STRIKE

Every fire recorded in Lewis County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of George E. Birge House: 14 past producers, 2 producers, 2 occurrences. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica. 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
Centralia	Silica	Occurrence
Centralia	Gemstone	Occurrence
Borrow Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Brown	Clay	Past Producer
Gillingham Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Bernobich Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Centralia Pit & Plant No. 64	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Foron Road Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Hanaford Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Lewis 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
Hubbard Bungalow	0.3 miles	2005
Centralia Union Depot	0.4 miles	1988
Olympic Club Saloon	0.5 miles	1980
The Sentinel	0.5 miles	1991
US Post Office-Centralia Main	0.6 miles	1991
Eagle's Hall	0.6 miles	2003

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86003375 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lewis County	All 33 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.