Union Mills Superintendent's House

Built in 1910. 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.

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. 7716 Union Mills Rd., Olympia, 98503
When was it listed? June 1988
Category. building
Also known as. Thurston County MRA
Census division. Olympia
When was it built? 1910
National Register reference number. 88000699 - 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

279 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 279 fires within 5 miles of Union Mills Superintendent's House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 237 acres in total. None started naturally. 18 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
Recreation and ceremony	64
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	64
Debris and open burning	47
Fireworks	24
Misuse of fire by a minor	20
Arson/incendiarism	18
Railroad operations and maintenance	14
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Smoking	10
Other causes	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	I-5 TRAIL SE
8 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	SEVEN OAKS
8 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
7 September 1992	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
6 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
6 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
5 September 1998	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.5 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
4 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	TOLMIE

Every fire recorded in Thurston County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Union Mills Superintendent's House: 10 past producers, 3 producers, 1 prospect. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
St. Clair Lake	Iron	Prospect
Fleetwood Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gleason Kearney Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Lacey Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Nisqually Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
O & K Trucking Co. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Olympia Sand & Gravel Co. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Squires Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Steilacoom Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Tom Martin Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Thurston County

Storms near this property

2 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Olympia, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2001 and 2006: 1 funnel cloud, 1 heavy rain. 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
January 2006	Heavy Rain	Olympia	$30,000	no account filed
May 2001	Funnel Cloud	Olympia	-	no account filed

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
Long Lake Recreation Hall	1.0 miles	1988
Chamber's Prairie-Ruddell Pioneer Cemetery	2.3 miles	1995
Nisqually School	3.6 miles	1990
Stoecker, Richard & Lydia	5.0 miles	2015
SAND MAN (Tug Boat)	5.2 miles	1998
F. W. Schmidt House	5.2 miles	1995

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88000699 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.