Blue Mountain School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“Blue Mountain School is an historic school located at 1986 Blue Mountain Road, on a five acre lot about 8.7 miles (14.0 km) southeast of Port Angeles, Washington. It was moved slightly east of its original location and its brick chimney was reconstructed in the early 20th century.”
Wikipedia article Blue Mountain School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Clallam 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 3 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. Blue Mountain Rd., Port Angeles, 98362
When was it listed? November 1987
Category. building
Also known as. Rural Public Schools of Washington State MPS
Census division. Agnew-Carlsborg
National Register reference number. 87001938 - 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

45 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Blue Mountain School between 1992 and 2019, burning about 100 acres in total. 6 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
Debris and open burning	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Recreation and ceremony	7
Natural	6
Fireworks	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Other causes	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
9 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	DISHWASHER FIRE
4 September 2001	Other causes	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
3 September 1997	Debris and open burning	48 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
3 September 1993	Fireworks	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
24 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
22 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
17 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	TOAD ROAD #2
16 September 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Every fire recorded in Clallam County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Blue Mountain School: 10 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Iron. 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
Swamp Creek	Clay, Iron	Occurrence
Baublits Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Blake Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Clallam County	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Danz Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Jim West Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Lindsay Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Round Mountain Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Round Mountain Road Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Sherborn Road Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Clallam 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

3 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
Emery Farmstead	1.4 miles	1988
Aircraft Warning Service Observation Tower	3.8 miles	1993
Dungeness River Bridge	6.3 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87001938 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clallam County	All 43 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.