Anderson Island School

Built in 1883. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

One of 215 National Register listings published here for Pierce County · listed in 1987 · category: Building · built in 1883.

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. Eckenstam-Johnson Rd., Anderson Island, 98303
When was it listed? July 1987
Category. building
Also known as. Rural Public Schools of Washington State MPS
Census division. Key Peninsula-Anderson Island
When was it built? 1883
National Register reference number. 87001165 - 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

16 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Anderson Island School between 1992 and 2019, burning about 16 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
Debris and open burning	5
Fireworks	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Natural	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Other causes	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 August 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
6 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
28 August 1996	Railroad operations and maintenance	6.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
17 August 2002	Other causes	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
10 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.8 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	KETRON ISLAND
7 July 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	BUSH
28 July 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	TOLMIE
28 July 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Anderson Island School: 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Diatomite. 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
Anderson Island	Diatomite	Occurrence
Mcneil Island Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Nisqually Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Pierce 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
Fort Nisqually Site	4.0 miles	1974
Steilacoom Historic District	4.8 miles	1975
Longbranch School Gymnasium	4.8 miles	1987
Davidson House	5.2 miles	1973
Nathaniel Orr House and Orchard	5.2 miles	1972
Steilacoom Catholic Church	5.2 miles	1974

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87001165 in Record Group 79.
Pierce County	All 215 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.