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Photograph of Compass High School
Photograph by Jon Roanhaus, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Grandview High School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“Compass High School is the former Grandview High School in Grandview, Washington, built in the moderne style in 1937 using Works Progress Administration funding. The school was designed by Yakima architect John W.”

Wikipedia article Compass High School (Grandview, Washington), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 73 National Register listings published here for Yakima County · listed in 1987 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 913 W. Second St., Grandview, 98930
  • When was it listed? February 1987
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Grandview MRA
  • Census division. Sunnyside
  • National Register reference number. 87000058 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Grandview High School: 12 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Anderson Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Keller PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Yakima County

Storms near this property

2 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grandview, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 2001: 1 hail, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2001Thunderstorm WindGrandview$15,000A spotter reported that strong winds blew the doors off a warehouse.
June 2001HailGrandview-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Yakima 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Grandview State Bank0.5 miles1987
Grandview Herald Building0.5 miles1987
Howay-Dykstra House0.6 miles1987
Morse House0.7 miles1987
Cornell Farmstead1.2 miles1987
Grandview Road-Yellowstone Trail1.4 miles1995

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 87000058 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Yakima CountyAll 73 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.
  • 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.