McMillin School

Built in 1922. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“The McMillin School is a historic school building in McMillin, Washington, United States. It was constructed in 1922 to replace a frame one-room schoolhouse and served the area until 1960.”
Wikipedia article McMillin School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 215 National Register listings published here for Pierce County · listed in 1987 · category: Building · built in 1922.

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. WA 162, McMillin, 98374
When was it listed? July 1987
Category. building
Also known as. Rural Public Schools of Washington State MPS
Census division. Graham-Thrift
When was it built? 1922
National Register reference number. 87001172 - 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

48 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of McMillin School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 71 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Recreation and ceremony	14
Debris and open burning	8
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Arson/incendiarism	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Fireworks	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
7 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	ORTING
7 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	SOUTH PRAIRIE CREEK
6 September 2014	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	VOIGHT CREEK
6 September 2014	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	CASCADIA
5 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	186TH
29 September 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
18 September 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	SLIDE RIVER
14 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	TAHALEH

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of McMillin School: 16 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
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
Thun Field Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	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
McMillin Bridge	0.8 miles	1982
Alderton School	2.0 miles	1987
Woolrey-Koehler Hop Kiln	3.0 miles	1983
Charles W. Orton House	3.2 miles	1983
Ryan House	4.3 miles	1976
Ezra Meeker Mansion	4.3 miles	1971

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87001172 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.