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One of 33 National Register listings published here for Skagit County · listed in 1990 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Lower Baker River Hydroelectric Power Plant
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 6 structuress as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Baker River at S end of Shannan Lake, Concrete, 98237
- When was it listed? July 1990
- Category. district
- Also known as. Hydroelectric Power Plants in Washington State, 1890-1938 MPS
- Census division. East Skagit
- National Register reference number. 88002736 - 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
40 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Lower Baker River Hydroelectric Power Plant between 1992 and 2020, burning about 177 acres in total. 7 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Debris and open burning | 9 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Other causes | 3 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2017 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest | 21 |
| 3 September 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 20 September 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | FINNEY CUMBERLAND |
| 20 September 1998 | Other causes | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 1 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 44 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 4 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9.8 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | LOWER FINNEY |
| 25 August 1992 | Natural | under an acre | Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest | not named |
| 23 August 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 21 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Lower Baker River Hydroelectric Power Plant: 8 unknowns, 7 producers, 3 past producers, 3 occurrences. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, Dimension, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clendenen Point Iron Deposit | Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Lone Star Cement Corp. | Limestone, General, Clay | Producer | ||
| Sawmill | Palladium | Unknown | ||
| Sweden | Copper, Zinc, Silver, Gold | Past Producer | ||
| Concrete | Limestone, General | Producer | ||
| Concrete | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown | ||
| Grandy Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Jackman Creek | Limestone, Dimension | Occurrence | ||
| Sauk | Limestone, Dimension | Occurrence | ||
| Three Mile Creek | Limestone, Dimension | Unknown |
Storms near this property
3 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Concrete, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2006 and 2014: 2 flood, 1 debris flow. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2006 | Flood | Concrete | $1,600,000 | Record flooding occurred on the Cowlitz, Nooksack, Puyallup, Nisqually, |Skykomish, Stillaguamish, Carbon, Snoqualmie, and Bogachiel. Major flooding occurred on the Tolt, Snohomish, Skokomish, Skagit, and White rivers. Other rivers flooding were the Satsop, Cedar, Wynoochee, Elwha, Deschutes, Dungeness, Skookumchuck, and Chehalis. |
| December 2010 | Flood | Concrete | $300,000 | There was some damage along the Skagit river. |
| November 2014 | Debris Flow | Concrete | $40,000 | A portion of State Route 20 collapsed this morning near mile marker 90 in Concrete. |
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
1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Baker River Bridge | 0.5 miles | 1976 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 88002736 in Record Group 79. |
| Skagit County | All 33 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.