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Photograph of Salsich Lumber Company Superintendent's House
Photograph by Jon Roanhaus, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Salsich Lumber Company Superintendent's House

Built in 1910 (Colonial Revival architecture). 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 1910, Colonial Revival architecture.

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. 10808 Vail Rd., Yelm, 98597
  • When was it listed? June 1988
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Thurston County MRA
  • When was it built? 1910
  • Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 88000696 - 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

162 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 162 fires within 5 miles of Salsich Lumber Company Superintendent's House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 162 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 5 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 burning46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined45
Misuse of fire by a minor21
Recreation and ceremony19
Equipment and vehicle use7
Fireworks6
Smoking5
Arson/incendiarism5
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2006Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
8 September 2001Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
8 September 1996Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
8 September 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
7 September 2003Natural1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
6 September 1997Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
5 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.3 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMOUNTAIN VIEW
5 September 2004Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersCREEK MILL

Every fire recorded in Thurston County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Salsich Lumber Company Superintendent's House: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Olsen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Price PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Reichein PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Yelm PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Thurston County

Storms near this property

3 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2017Thunderstorm WindYelm$700,000Severe 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 2003Tornado (F0)Yelm$5,000A weak tornado, on the ground for less than a minute, damaged a few power lines and knocked down some tree limbs.
September 1997HailYelm-A thunderstorm with golf ball sized hail broke car windshields in Yelm.

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

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
L. N. Rice House1.5 miles1988
Lackamas School6.5 miles1990
Rainier School6.6 miles2004

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 88000696 in Record Group 79.
Thurston CountyAll 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.