Crow Valley School

Built in 1888. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

One of 21 National Register listings published here for San Juan County · listed in 1987 · category: Building · built in 1888.

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. Crow Valley Rd., Eastsound, 98245
When was it listed? August 1987
Category. building
Also known as. Rural Public Schools of Washington State MPS
Census division. Orcas
When was it built? 1888
National Register reference number. 87001457 - 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

23 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Crow Valley School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 13 acres in total. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Natural	3
Fireworks	3
Debris and open burning	3
Other causes	2
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 2019	Other causes	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	DEER HARBOR
6 September 1992	Recreation and ceremony	2.5 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
16 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	CROW VALLEY
15 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Northwest Region-Department of Natural Resources	BONNIE BRAE
10 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Northwest Region-Department of Natural Resources	SEAVIEW
1 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Northwest Region-Department of Natural Resources	CLAY FARM RD
9 August 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
6 August 1997	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Every fire recorded in San Juan County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 29 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 29 workings within 5 miles of Crow Valley School: 15 occurrences, 12 past producers, 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Flagstone. 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
Alaska Barge Co. Quarry	Flagstone, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Deer Harbor Feldspar Deposit	Feldspar	Occurrence
Mcgraw-Kittinger Deposit	Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
North Beach Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Prospect
Sea Island Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Buck Mountain Deposit No. 1	Limestone, General	Past Producer
Caldwell Point Deposit	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Camp Indralaya Deposit	Limestone, General	Occurrence

Every working recorded in San Juan 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
Emmanuel Episcopal Church	2.6 miles	1994
Rosario	3.6 miles	1978
Orcas Hotel	4.8 miles	1982
Krumdiack Homestead	4.9 miles	1993
Moran State Park	5.4 miles	2013
Little Red Schoolhouse	6.6 miles	1973

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87001457 in Record Group 79.
San Juan County	All 21 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.