Uncas School

Built in 1917. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

One of 75 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 1987 · category: Building · built in 1917.

Sources: 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. E. Uncas, Discovery, 98368
When was it listed? February 1987
Category. building
Also known as. Eastern Jefferson County MRA
Census division. Discovery Bay-Port Townsend
When was it built? 1917
National Register reference number. 87000025 - 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

45 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Uncas School between 1993 and 2020, burning about 32 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Debris and open burning	11
Recreation and ceremony	10
Arson/incendiarism	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Fireworks	2
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.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
25 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
22 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	EAST RADAR
17 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
15 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
9 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
6 August 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
5 August 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	600
30 August 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	CLEAVER

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Uncas School: 6 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Hastings Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Uncas Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson 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
Van Trojen House	3.4 miles	1984
Saint's Rest, Tukey's Pioneer Cabin and Homestead House	5.1 miles	1983
Hanna Rover House	5.3 miles	1983
Senator William Bishop House and Office	5.6 miles	1984
Chimacum Post Office	5.6 miles	1983
Hattie Williams House	6.1 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87000025 in Record Group 79.
Jefferson County	All 75 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.