L. N. Rice House

Built in 1908. 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 1908.

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.
Listed as. Rice, L. N., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 12247 Vail Rd., SE, Yelm, 98597
When was it listed? September 1988
Category. building
Also known as. Thurston County MRA
Census division. Olympia East
When was it built? 1908
National Register reference number. 88000700 - 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

183 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 183 fires within 5 miles of L. N. Rice House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 158 acres in total. 6 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	55
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	53
Recreation and ceremony	22
Misuse of fire by a minor	20
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Natural	6
Smoking	6
Fireworks	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Arson/incendiarism	3
Other causes	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
8 September 2006	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
8 September 2001	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
8 September 1996	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
8 September 1994	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
7 September 2003	Natural	1.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
6 September 1997	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
5 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.3 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	MOUNTAIN VIEW
5 September 2004	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	CREEK 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 L. N. Rice 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Longmire Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Price Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Reichein Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Yelm Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past 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.

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.

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Salsich Lumber Company Superintendent's House	1.5 miles	1988
Rainier School	5.6 miles	2004
Lackamas School	5.7 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88000700 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.