Milwaukee Road Bunkhouse

Built in 1909. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

From the record

“The Milwaukee Road Bunkhouse was built by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad in 1909 to house train crews between shifts.”
Wikipedia article Milwaukee Road Bunkhouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 23 National Register listings published here for Kittitas County · listed in 1989 · category: Building · built in 1909, by Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 526 Marie, South Cle Elum, 98922
When was it listed? March 1989
Category. building
Census division. Cle Elum
When was it built? 1909
Architect. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad
National Register reference number. 89000210 - 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

137 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 137 fires within 5 miles of Milwaukee Road Bunkhouse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 167 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 2 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	42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	31
Debris and open burning	23
Natural	12
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Smoking	4
Fireworks	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Other causes	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
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
9 September 2012	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	BUFFALO SPRINGS
9 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	WINCHESTER
8 September 2003	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest	SHARON OSBORN
7 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	LANIGAN POWERLINE
7 September 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
6 September 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
6 September 1993	Fireworks	1.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
5 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	BULL FROG WOODCHIP

Every fire recorded in Kittitas County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 28 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Milwaukee Road Bunkhouse: 14 past producers, 7 prospects, 5 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Nickel, Chromium. 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
Boose	Silica	Prospect
Cle Elum Placer	Gold	Prospect
Cle Elum Sand and Gravel	Clay	Producer
Durrwachter	Iron, Garnet	Prospect
Taneum Creek	Graphite	Prospect
Taneum Creek	Copper	Occurrence
Denney	Manganese	Prospect
Denny Assigned To Pittsburg	Manganese	Prospect
Red Rock	Nickel, Chromium	Prospect
Red Rock Prospect	Nickel, Chromium	Occurrence	Replacement

Every working recorded in Kittitas 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

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Milwaukee Chicago St. Paul and Pacific Railroad: South Cle Elum Yard	under 500 feet	2003
Cle Elum-Roslyn Beneficial Association Hospital	1.0 miles	1980
Roslyn Historic District	3.3 miles	1978
Northwestern Improvement Company Store	3.4 miles	1973

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 89000210 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kittitas County	All 23 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.