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Elwha River Hydroelectric Power Plant

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“The Elwha Dam was a 108-ft high dam located in the United States, in the state of Washington, on the Elwha River approximately 4.9 miles (7.9 km) upstream from the mouth of the river on the Strait of Juan de Fuca.”
Wikipedia article Elwha Dam, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Clallam County · listed in 1988 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. N end of Lake Aldwell, Port Angeles, 98363
When was it listed? December 1988
Category. district
Also known as. Hydroelectric Power Plants in Washington State, 1890-1938 MPS
Census division. Port Angeles
National Register reference number. 88002741 - 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

88 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Elwha River Hydroelectric Power Plant between 1992 and 2020, burning about 449 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 4 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
Recreation and ceremony	27
Debris and open burning	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Natural	8
Smoking	4
Arson/incendiarism	4
Fireworks	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Other causes	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
7 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
7 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Olympic National Park	ELWHA RSRT
29 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
29 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
27 September 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
21 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	MISTY
20 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	DAN KELLY ROAD
20 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Olympic National Park	ELWHA DAM

Every fire recorded in Clallam County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 29 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 29 workings within 5 miles of Elwha River Hydroelectric Power Plant: 24 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Manganese, Gold, Zinc. 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	Recorded
Angeles Star	Gold, Zinc, Copper	Occurrence	Chalcopyrite, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Angeles Star Group	Zinc, Gold, Copper	Prospect
Ozette Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Past Producer
Griff Creek	Manganese	Unknown	1956
Lady Norma	Manganese	Unknown	1956
Elwha Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Shore Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Aldwell Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Angeles Sand and Gravel Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Clallam 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Elwha River Bridge	0.4 miles	1982
Elwah Campground Community Kitchen	4.9 miles	2007
Elwha Ranger Station	5.6 miles	2007
Masonic Temple	5.7 miles	1989
Olympic National Park Headquarters Historic District	5.7 miles	2007
Joseph Paris House	5.7 miles	1987

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88002741 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clallam County	All 43 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.