DuPont Village Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“The DuPont Village Historic District is a historic district and neighborhood of DuPont, Washington. It is roughly bounded by Brandywine Ave, DuPont Ave, Santa Cruz St, and Penniman St.”
Wikipedia article DuPont Village Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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

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

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by Santa Cruz, Brandywine, DuPont, and Penniman, DuPont, 98327
When was it listed? September 1987
Category. district
Census division. Fort Lewis-DuPont
National Register reference number. 87001542 - 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

32 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of DuPont Village Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 23 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
Recreation and ceremony	10
Debris and open burning	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Arson/incendiarism	2
Fireworks	2
Smoking	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
10 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
9 August 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
7 August 2020	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	NISQUALLY HILL
3 August 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
3 August 2000	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
28 August 1996	Railroad operations and maintenance	6.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
27 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	NISQUALLY BRIDGE
27 August 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of DuPont Village Historic District: 3 past producers, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Diatomite. 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
Roy	Diatomite	Occurrence
Nisqually Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Nisqually Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed 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
Red Shield Inn	1.3 miles	1979
Fort Nisqually Site	1.8 miles	1974
Adjutant General's Residence	3.7 miles	1991
American Lake Veterans Hospital	4.3 miles	2009
Thornewood	4.4 miles	1982
Woodbrook Hunt Club	5.3 miles	1997

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87001542 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.