Photograph by City of Tacoma Department of Public Utilities; Unknown photographer, Public domain. Via
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Cushman No. 1 Hydroelectric Power Plant
Built in 1926. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
From the record
“Cushman Dam No. 1 is a hydroelectric dam on the North Fork of the Skokomish River in Mason County, Washington, which impounds and enlarges the naturally occurring Lake Cushman. Built by Tacoma City Light between 1923 -1926 as Tacoma's demand for electricity grew rapidly after World War I.”
Wikipedia article Cushman Dam No. 1, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 16 National Register listings published here for Mason County · listed in 1988 · category: District · built in 1926.
Also known as. Hydroelectric Power Plants in Washington State, 1890-1938 MPS
Census division. West Mason
When was it built? 1926
National Register reference number.88002759- 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
54 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Cushman No. 1 Hydroelectric Power Plant
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 38 acres in total. 5 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
15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
14
Fireworks
6
Natural
5
Arson/incendiarism
4
Debris and open burning
3
Equipment and vehicle use
3
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
Smoking
1
Other causes
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
7 September 2008
Power generation/transmission/distribution
10 acres
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
CUSHMAN
6 September 2012
Arson/incendiarism
1.0 acres
Olympic National Forest
STEEL BRIDGE 2
5 September 1994
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Olympic National Forest
not named
30 September 2012
Arson/incendiarism
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
LEEDS
21 September 1995
Debris and open burning
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
16 September 1995
Misuse of fire by a minor
2.0 acres
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
12 September 2011
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
WEST CUSHMAN CF
11 September 2020
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
1 working within 5 miles of Cushman No. 1 Hydroelectric Power Plant: 1 past producer.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Hoodsport, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1996 and 1999: 2 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.
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
4 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.
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.
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