BlockFrom the record
One of 68 National Register listings published here for Thurston County · listed in 1988 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Johnson House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 19540 Johnson Rd., Yelm, 98597
- When was it listed? June 1988
- Category. building
- Also known as. Thurston County MRA
- Census division. Thurston South
- National Register reference number. 88000695 - 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
35 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Johnson House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 22 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 14 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
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 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.5 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 8 September 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | SORENSON |
| 27 September 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 26 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 24 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | LACAMAS FIRE |
| 10 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 10 September 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 5 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.2 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | PEISSNER |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Johnson House: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14-B Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
3 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yelm, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1997 and 2017: 1 hail, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Yelm | $700,000 | Severe thunderstorm wind gusts peaked around 70 mph during the event between 3 and 5 PM, knocking down trees and power lines leaving nearly 50,000 without power. Several homes had trees fall on them. |
| October 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Yelm | $5,000 | A weak tornado, on the ground for less than a minute, damaged a few power lines and knocked down some tree limbs. |
| September 1997 | Hail | Yelm | - | A thunderstorm with golf ball sized hail broke car windshields in Yelm. |
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
1 within 8 milesOther 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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lackamas School | 4.1 miles | 1990 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 88000695 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.