Midway School

Built in 1893. 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 1893.

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. 5115 Thirty-eighth Ave. NW, Gig Harbor, 98335
When was it listed? July 1987
Category. building
Also known as. Rural Public Schools of Washington State MPS
Census division. Gig Harbor Peninsula
When was it built? 1893
National Register reference number. 87001166 - 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

4 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Midway School between 2001 and 2018, burning about 40 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
Recreation and ceremony	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
6 September 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	SPILLMAN
17 August 2001	Recreation and ceremony	40 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
11 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	CUTTS ISLAND
26 May 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Midway School: 8 past producers, 1 plant, 1 producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Nickel, Arsenic. 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
(Facility) Asarco Refinery	Copper, Nickel, Arsenic	Plant
Crescent Valley Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Pohl Pit - Div. 10	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Stacy-Benson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	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 Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Weathers Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Pierce County

Storms near this property

2 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gig Harbor, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2002 and 2015: 1 funnel cloud, 1 tornado. 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
January 2015	Tornado (EF1)	Gig Harbor	-	Tornado starting from about 4 miles wsw of Gig Harbor dissipating just ene of Gig Harbor. Tornado determination based on eye-witness reports and video. Maximum intensity EF1. Wind up to 110 mph. Path length 4.1 miles. Maxmimum width up to 175 yards.
June 2002	Funnel Cloud	Gig Harbor	-	A funnel cloud was sighted in the Gig Harbor area.

Every storm 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
Andrew & Bertha Skansie Net Shed and House	1.9 miles	2011
Wollochet-Point Fosdick School	2.5 miles	1987
Fort Nisqually Factor's House	2.6 miles	1970
Cabin No. 97	2.9 miles	1977
Camp Six	2.9 miles	1973
Tacoma Narrows Bridge Ruins	3.0 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87001166 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.
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.