California Fruit Store

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

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

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. 909 Third St., Anacortes, 98221
When was it listed? November 1987
Category. building
Census division. Anacortes
National Register reference number. 87001949 - 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

50 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of California Fruit Store between 1992 and 2020, burning about 40 acres in total. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony	23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Smoking	7
Debris and open burning	6
Fireworks	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Natural	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
8 September 2013	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	CAMPSITE 9
2 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
18 September 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
10 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	CAMPBELL LAKE
3 August 2019	Smoking	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	CAP SANTE
3 August 1997	Other causes	under an acre	Puget Sound Agency	USCHURCH
29 August 2011	Smoking	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	HEART LAKE
29 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	MT. ERIE

Every fire recorded in Skagit County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 28 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of California Fruit Store: 12 occurrences, 6 past producers, 4 producers, 3 prospects. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Chromium, Copper. 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	Recorded
Anacortes	Chromium, Platinum	Occurrence	Chromite
Fidalgo Island	Copper, Gold	Prospect
Island Mine	Copper, Magnesite, Iron	Occurrence
Stephens	Copper, Silver, Gold	Past Producer
Anacopper	Silver, Gold, Copper	Occurrence	Copper, Gold
Fidalgo Island	Silver, Gold, Copper	Occurrence	Underground
Stephens	Copper, Gold, Silver	Occurrence
Stephens	Copper, Gold, Silver	Past Producer	Chalcopyrite, Pyrite
Anacortes Quarry and Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Beacon Point	Magnesite	Producer

Every working recorded in Skagit 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
Marine Supply and Hardware Complex	under 500 feet	1987
Semar Block	0.1 miles	1987
Wilson Hotel	0.2 miles	2004
Great Northern Depot	0.3 miles	1987
Fraternal Order of Eagles Hall-Anacortes	0.3 miles	2019
W. T. PRESTON (snagboat)	0.3 miles	1972

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87001949 in Record Group 79.
Skagit 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.