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Photograph of Lakeview School
Photograph by Joe Mabel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Lakeview School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“Lakeview School is located at 8635 SE 68th St. on Mercer Island in Seattle, USA. At its inception, the school was built to house eight grades of Mercer Island students.”

Wikipedia article Lakeview School (Mercer Island, Washington), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 324 National Register listings published here for King County · listed in 1988 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Island Crest Way and S.E. Sixty-eighth St., Mercer Island, 98040
  • When was it listed? June 1988
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Rural Public Schools of Washington State MPS
  • Census division. Seattle East
  • National Register reference number. 88000742 - 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

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Lakeview School between 2006 and 2017, burning about 5 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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/undetermined1
Debris and open burning1

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
24 September 2017Debris and open burning4.3 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters8TH AVE
5 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Every fire recorded in King County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Lakeview School: 19 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica. 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
Renton Junction ASilicaPast Producer
Renton MineSilicaPast Producer
Black River QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Riverton QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Riverton QuarrySand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Coal Creek Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Factoria PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Renton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in King 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Pacific Coast Company House No. 753.0 miles1979
Jim and Betty Eng House3.2 miles2019
Columbia City Historic District3.3 miles1980
Seattle Public Library3.3 miles1982
Frederick W. Winters House3.7 miles1992
Building No. 105, Boeing Airplane Company3.8 miles1971

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 88000742 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
King CountyAll 324 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.