Photograph of Long Lake Dam — Photograph by Unknown, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Long Lake Hydroelectric Power Plant

Built in 1915. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“Long Lake Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Spokane River, between Lincoln County and Stevens County about 30 miles (48 km) northwest of Spokane in eastern Washington. It forms Long Lake (Washington), a 23.5 mi (37.8 km) long reservoir, and has a hydroelectric generating capacity of 71 megawatts.”
Wikipedia article Long Lake Dam, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Stevens County · listed in 1988 · category: District · built in 1915.

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

The listing

Address. Spokane River, Ford, 99013
When was it listed? December 1988
Category. district
Also known as. Hydroelectric Power Plants in Washington State, 1890-1938 MPS
When was it built? 1915
National Register reference number. 88002738 - 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

323 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 323 fires within 5 miles of Long Lake Hydroelectric Power Plant between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,563 acres in total. 40 started naturally. 31 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	65
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	51
Recreation and ceremony	43
Natural	40
Fireworks	34
Arson/incendiarism	31
Smoking	15
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Other causes	12
Misuse of fire by a minor	11
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6

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
9 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
8 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	DEVILS GAP
8 September 2013	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	LONG LOOKOUT
8 September 2002	Smoking	under an acre	Spokane Agency	UNLUCKY DG
7 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	JEANNE 291
6 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	23 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	CHAMOKANE 2
6 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Spokane Agency	CREEKSIDE
5 September 2003	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Every fire recorded in Stevens County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Long Lake Hydroelectric Power Plant: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum, 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Pershell Clay	Aluminum	Unknown
	Stevens County	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Stevens County

Storms near this property

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ford, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2023: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Ford	$80,000	Numerous trees were knocked down across Stevens County with a majority of the damage occurring over southern portions of the county. Several trees were downed near Addy, WA causing some structural damage to homes. A CWOP located four miles northeast of Rice, WA clocked a wind gust of 61 mph.
July 2023	Hail	Ford	$10,000	Hail report of 2 inches 3 miles Southeast of Ford. It damaged roof panels.
July 2022	Heavy Rain	Ford	-	A thunderstorm brought heavy rain and pea size hail. Most of the rain was over in 15 minutes.
July 2009	Hail	Ford	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stevens 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

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Little Falls Hydroelectric Power Plant	3.6 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88002738 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Stevens County	All 19 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.