Dungeness School

Built in 1892. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“The Dungeness School is a historical schoolhouse building located at 657 Towne Road in Dungeness, Washington. The idea for the school was formed in 1892 by the settlers of the Dungeness area.”
Wikipedia article Dungeness School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Clallam County · listed in 1988 · category: Building · built in 1892.

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. 657 Towne Rd., Dungeness, 98382
When was it listed? May 1988
Category. building
Also known as. Rural Public Schools of Washington State MPS
Census division. Sequim
When was it built? 1892
National Register reference number. 88000627 - 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

20 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Dungeness School between 1998 and 2019, burning about 153 acres in total. 2 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
Recreation and ceremony	7
Fireworks	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Natural	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Smoking	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
5 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	GREYS MARSH
3 September 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	RIVERVIEW
25 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
1 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	DUNGENESS CAMP FIRE
8 August 2001	Other causes	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
6 August 2003	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
3 August 2007	Natural	11 acres	Dungeness National Wildlife Refuge	SPIT
27 August 1998	Fireworks	25 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Every fire recorded in Clallam County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Dungeness School: 10 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Dimension. 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
Hallers Pit	Stone, Dimension	Producer
Christie Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Eberle Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Evans Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Hansen Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Lotzgazelle Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Mc Innes Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	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

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
McAlmond House	0.7 miles	1976
New Dungeness Light Station	2.9 miles	1993
Dungeness River Bridge	4.1 miles	1982
Sequim Opera House	4.5 miles	1991
Aircraft Warning Service Observation Tower	6.3 miles	1993
Emery Farmstead	8.0 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88000627 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.