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One of 73 National Register listings published here for Yakima County · listed in 1988 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Union Pacific Freight Building
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. 104 W. Yakima Ave., Yakima, 98902
- When was it listed? September 1988
- Category. building
- Census division. Yakima
- Architectural style. Chicago School
- National Register reference number. 88001519 - 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
43 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Union Pacific Freight Building between 1997 and 2020, burning about 3,361 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Fireworks | 31 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Yakama Agency | 42ND & MCCULLOUGH RD |
| 19 September 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | 191 acres | Yakama Agency | FRUIT STAND |
| 1 September 1997 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 20 acres | Yakama Agency | AHTANUM RG |
| 8 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 400 acres | Washington State Fire Marshal's Office | COYOTE CREEK |
| 7 July 2009 | Fireworks | under an acre | Yakama Agency | 16TH AND GILBERT |
| 5 July 2015 | Fireworks | under an acre | Yakama Agency | 16TH / GILBERT |
| 5 July 2014 | Fireworks | under an acre | Yakama Agency | GILBERT 2 |
| 5 July 2000 | Fireworks | under an acre | Yakama Agency | GRAVEY |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 34 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 34 workings within 5 miles of Union Pacific Freight Building: 27 past producers, 5 occurrences, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Pumice, Clay. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Selah | Silica | Occurrence | ||
| Willow Springs No. 3 | Gold, Silver | Prospect | ||
| Yakima | Gemstone | Occurrence | ||
| Kaiser | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Yakima | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Selah No. 1 | Pumice | Occurrence | ||
| Selah No. 2 | Pumice | Occurrence | ||
| State Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Union Gap Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Wenas | Pumice | Occurrence |
Storms near this property
12 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yakima, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1999 and 2010: 3 lightning, 3 flash flood, 3 hail, 2 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 2006 | Lightning | Yakima | $35,000 | Lightning struck a weather vane on top of a barn and sparked a fire that destroyed the barn roof. |
| August 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Yakima | $5,000 | Strong winds from thunderstorms blew down around 100 trees along Highway 410 one mile west of the junction with Highway 12. Power lines were also downed. At the same time high winds peeled back a metal roof 9 miles west of the Highway 12 intersection. |
| May 2005 | Flash Flood | Yakima | $3,000 | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Yakima | $2,000 | Strong winds associated with a thunderstorm knocked down several trees, and knocked out power to about 750 customers. A weather spotter five miles east of Yakima reported a wind gust to 55 MPH at 4:59 PM PST. The Yakima ASOS at the Yakima airport reported a peak wind gust to 53 MPH at 4:54 PM PST. The property damage from this event is estimated at $2,000. |
| July 2010 | Hail | Yakima | - | Observer reported 1/2 to 3/4 inch hail. |
| July 2010 | Hail | Yakima | - | Yakima Sheriff Dispatch reported 1 inch diameter hail. |
| May 2004 | Flash Flood | Yakima | - | A weather spotter reported .50 inches of rain in 30 minutes in Yakima from a nearly stationary storm. This resulted in deep water on 56th Avenue and Summitview in Yakima, with cars stalling out and forcing a lane closure. During the storm, 60 Pacific Power customers lost electricity. |
| June 2002 | Lightning | Yakima | - | Lightning knocked out power to 4,000 customers in Yakima. The storms produced hail and flooding on some intersections. |
| August 1999 | Lightning | Yakima | - | Lightning struck a power substation west of the Central Washington fairgrounds early in the morning interrupting power to 4000 homes for 5 hours. These storms produced over 400 strokes of cloud-to-ground lightning and started 40 small fires in the Wenatchee National Forest. |
| April 2005 | Flash Flood | Yakima | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Funnel Cloud | Yakima | - | no account filed |
| October 2005 | Hail | Yakima | - | no account filed |
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Lund Building | 0.1 miles | 1983 |
 | Old North Yakima Historic District | 0.2 miles | 1986 |
| Fruit and Produce Row Historic District | 0.2 miles | 2024 | |
 | A. E. Larson Building | 0.3 miles | 1984 |
 | Edward B. Moore House | 0.3 miles | 1987 |
 | Capitol Theatre | 0.4 miles | 1973 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 88001519 in Record Group 79. |
| Yakima County | All 73 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.