Colvin House

Built in 1877. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

One of 68 National Register listings published here for Thurston County · listed in 1988 · category: Building · built in 1877.

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 4 structuress, 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 16828 Old Hwy. 99, Tenino, 98589
When was it listed? June 1988
Category. building
Also known as. Thurston County MRA
Census division. Thurston South
When was it built? 1877
National Register reference number. 88000693 - 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

98 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of Colvin House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 211 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	31
Debris and open burning	23
Recreation and ceremony	12
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Railroad operations and maintenance	7
Smoking	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Fireworks	3
Other causes	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
9 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
9 September 1996	Other causes	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
8 September 1997	Other causes	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
6 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
4 September 1998	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
3 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
21 September 2000	Recreation and ceremony	44 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
15 September 2016	Power generation/transmission/distribution	6.4 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	BUCODA

Every fire recorded in Thurston County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Colvin House: 10 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Flagstone, Clay, Peat. 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
Bucoda Pit	Clay, Peat	Past Producer
Hercules Quarry	Flagstone	Past Producer
Western Quarry	Flagstone	Past Producer
Crowder Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Johnson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Stevens Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed 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 Thurston County

Storms near this property

1 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tenino, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2004: 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2004	Tornado (F1)	Tenino	$50,000	A tornado damaged a barn, some trees, and a nearby apartment.

Every storm recorded in Thurston 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
Tenino Depot	2.1 miles	1974
Tenino Stone Company Quarry	2.4 miles	1983
Tenino Downtown Historic District	2.5 miles	2004
Seatco Prison Site	2.8 miles	1975
Ticknor School	4.2 miles	1990
Miller-Brewer House	5.4 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88000693 in Record Group 79.
Thurston County	All 68 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.