Birdsey D. Minkler House

Built in 1891. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

One of 33 National Register listings published here for Skagit County · listed in 1988 · category: Building · built in 1891.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Minkler, Birdsey D., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 201 S. Main St., Lyman, 98263
When was it listed? December 1988
Category. building
Census division. Lyman-Hamilton
When was it built? 1891
National Register reference number. 88002745 - 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

35 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Birdsey D. Minkler House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 40 acres in total. 3 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
Recreation and ceremony	12
Debris and open burning	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Fireworks	4
Natural	3
Arson/incendiarism	1
Smoking	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
30 September 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
24 September 1994	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
2 September 2013	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	BLUE MOON
1 September 2013	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	SUNSET 17
6 August 2003	Natural	15 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
4 August 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	ELK RUN
20 August 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
15 August 1997	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Every fire recorded in Skagit County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Birdsey D. Minkler House: 7 unknowns, 6 occurrences, 3 past producers, 3 prospects. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Manganese, Manganese, Nickel. 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
Hamilton Claims	Iron, Manganese, Aluminum, Sulfur, Phosphorus-Phosphates	Past Producer	1881
Hamilton Mill	Magnesite	Producer
Jones Creek	Graphite	Occurrence
Last Chance Mine	Garnet	Occurrence
Lyman	Talc-Soapstone	Occurrence
Lyman	Asbestos	Past Producer
Powell Creek	Nickel	Occurrence
Powell Creek	Nickel	Occurrence
Eagle	Manganese	Prospect	1956
Hamilton	Iron, Manganese	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Skagit 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
	Northern State Hospital	6.5 miles	2010

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88002745 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.