Alderton School

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.

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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 9512 Orting Hwy., E., Alderton, 98372
When was it listed? July 1987
Category. building
Also known as. Rural Public Schools of Washington State MPS
Census division. Puyallup
National Register reference number. 87001171 - 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

34 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Alderton School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 52 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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	11
Debris and open burning	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Fireworks	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Smoking	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 2014	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	CASCADIA
29 September 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
14 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	TAHALEH
6 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	210 CASCADIA
5 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.5 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	EHLI HILL
30 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	PRAIRIE RIDGE
3 August 1995	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
28 August 1996	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Alderton School: 15 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Calcium. 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
Mcmillan	Calcium	Past Producer
Anderson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Aztec Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Carl G. Olson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Lundblad Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Norm's Auto Wrecking Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Puyallup Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Spinning Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Sumner 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
Charles W. Orton House	1.2 miles	1983
McMillin School	2.0 miles	1987
Ryan House	2.3 miles	1976
McMillin Bridge	2.8 miles	1982
Herbert Williams House	2.8 miles	1984
Ezra Meeker Mansion	3.2 miles	1971

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87001171 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.