William Lindsey House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

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

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.
Listed as. Lindsey, William, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 301 N. Eighth St., Yakima, 98901
When was it listed? February 1987
Category. building
Also known as. Yakima TR
Census division. Yakima
National Register reference number. 87000075 - 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

38 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of William Lindsey House between 1997 and 2020, burning about 3,164 acres in total. None 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
Fireworks	29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Other causes	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Debris and open burning	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
1 September 1997	Misuse of fire by a minor	20 acres	Yakama Agency	AHTANUM RG
8 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	400 acres	Washington State Fire Marshal's Office	COYOTE CREEK
7 July 2009	Fireworks	under an acre	Yakama Agency	16TH AND GILBERT
5 July 2015	Fireworks	under an acre	Yakama Agency	16TH / GILBERT
5 July 2014	Fireworks	under an acre	Yakama Agency	GILBERT 2
5 July 2000	Fireworks	under an acre	Yakama Agency	GRAVEY
4 July 2017	Fireworks	under an acre	Yakama Agency	GILBERT # 3
4 July 2017	Fireworks	under an acre	Yakama Agency	GILBERT # 2

Every fire recorded in Yakima County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 34 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 34 workings within 5 miles of William Lindsey House: 27 past producers, 5 occurrences, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Pumice, Clay. 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
Selah	Silica	Occurrence
Willow Springs No. 3	Gold, Silver	Prospect
Yakima	Gemstone	Occurrence
Kaiser	Clay	Past Producer
Yakima	Clay	Past Producer
Selah No. 1	Pumice	Occurrence
Selah No. 2	Pumice	Occurrence
State Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Union Gap Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Wenas	Pumice	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Yakima County

Storms near this property

12 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yakima, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1999 and 2010: 3 lightning, 3 flash flood, 3 hail, 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2006	Lightning	Yakima	$35,000	Lightning struck a weather vane on top of a barn and sparked a fire that destroyed the barn roof.
August 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Yakima	$5,000	Strong winds from thunderstorms blew down around 100 trees along Highway 410 one mile west of the junction with Highway 12. Power lines were also downed. At the same time high winds peeled back a metal roof 9 miles west of the Highway 12 intersection.
May 2005	Flash Flood	Yakima	$3,000	no account filed
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Yakima	$2,000	Strong winds associated with a thunderstorm knocked down several trees, and knocked out power to about 750 customers. A weather spotter five miles east of Yakima reported a wind gust to 55 MPH at 4:59 PM PST. The Yakima ASOS at the Yakima airport reported a peak wind gust to 53 MPH at 4:54 PM PST. The property damage from this event is estimated at $2,000.
July 2010	Hail	Yakima	-	Observer reported 1/2 to 3/4 inch hail.
July 2010	Hail	Yakima	-	Yakima Sheriff Dispatch reported 1 inch diameter hail.
May 2004	Flash Flood	Yakima	-	A weather spotter reported .50 inches of rain in 30 minutes in Yakima from a nearly stationary storm. This resulted in deep water on 56th Avenue and Summitview in Yakima, with cars stalling out and forcing a lane closure. During the storm, 60 Pacific Power customers lost electricity.
June 2002	Lightning	Yakima	-	Lightning knocked out power to 4,000 customers in Yakima. The storms produced hail and flooding on some intersections.
August 1999	Lightning	Yakima	-	Lightning struck a power substation west of the Central Washington fairgrounds early in the morning interrupting power to 4000 homes for 5 hours. These storms produced over 400 strokes of cloud-to-ground lightning and started 40 small fires in the Wenatchee National Forest.
April 2005	Flash Flood	Yakima	-	no account filed
May 2005	Funnel Cloud	Yakima	-	no account filed
October 2005	Hail	Yakima	-	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.

Property	Distance	Listed
James Greene House	under 500 feet	1987
Francis Mineau House	0.1 miles	1987
James Sharp House	0.2 miles	1987
James Richey House	0.3 miles	1987
Larson-Hellieson House	0.3 miles	1987
Young Women's Christian Association Building	0.3 miles	1993

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87000075 in Record Group 79.
Yakima County	All 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.
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.
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.