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Photograph of Fox Island School
Photograph by Hedwig in Washington, CC BY 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Fox Island School

Built in 1934. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“The Fox Island School is a former public school in Fox Island, Washington. July 1987 the National Register of Historic Places listed the building under the reference number 87001167 as a historic building.”

Wikipedia article Fox Island School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 215 National Register listings published here for Pierce County · listed in 1987 · category: Building · built in 1934.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Gway Dr. and Ninth St., Fox Island, 98333
  • 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? 1934
  • National Register reference number. 87001167 - 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

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Fox Island School between 2002 and 2008, burning under an acre 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 ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 September 2008Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersTIMBERLAKE
6 September 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSPILLMAN
26 May 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Every fire recorded in Pierce 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 Fox Island School: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Mcneil Island Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Steilacoom PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Steilacoom Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Weathers PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Wollochet-Point Fosdick School2.0 miles1987
Arletta School3.1 miles1987
Tacoma Narrows Bridge Ruins3.4 miles1992
Charles and Mary Louise Curran House3.6 miles2012
Midway School3.8 miles1987
Cabin No. 975.1 miles1977

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 87001167 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Pierce CountyAll 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.