Holy Cross Polish National Catholic Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“Holy Cross Polish National Catholic Church was a historic Polish National Catholic Church (PNCC) at Third and Queen in Pe Ell, Washington. The parish was the first PNCC church organized and constructed in Washington state, and was one of a few of such type in the Western United States.”
Wikipedia article Holy Cross Polish National Catholic Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 33 National Register listings published here for Lewis County · listed in 1987 · category: Building.

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. Third and Queen, Pe Ell, 98572
When was it listed? September 1987
Category. building
Census division. Winlock-Pe Ell
National Register reference number. 87001456 - 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

26 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Holy Cross Polish National Catholic Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 40 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning	12
Recreation and ceremony	4
Arson/incendiarism	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Other causes	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Fireworks	1
Natural	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
4 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	WEST WYNOCHEE
29 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
23 September 1992	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
17 September 1994	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
12 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	LUSCK
8 August 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	BEAM
7 August 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	BLACKBERRY FIRE
6 August 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	JONES FIRE

Every fire recorded in Lewis County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Holy Cross Polish National Catholic Church: 8 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Road Pit No. 3	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
35 Road Pit Weyerhaeuser Company	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Doty Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Road Pit No. 35	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Sliwa Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Thrash Creek Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Lewis 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87001456 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lewis County	All 33 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.