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One of 52 National Register listings published here for Snohomish County · listed in 1989 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Rucker Hill Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
The listing
- Address. Roughly bounded by 32nd, Tulalip Ave., Bell Ave., Snohomish Ave., Laurel, and Warren, Everett, 98201
- When was it listed? November 1989
- Category. district
- Census division. Everett
- National Register reference number. 89000399 - 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
14 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Rucker Hill Historic District between 1992 and 2019, burning about 24 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Smoking | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 5 September 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | KAPOWSIN SWAMP |
| 17 September 1998 | Smoking | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 15 September 2017 | Smoking | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | SPENCER ISLAND |
| 28 August 1992 | Smoking | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 4 July 2014 | Fireworks | 16 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | SKIPLEY BOG |
| 23 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | SNO RIVER |
| 17 July 1995 | Smoking | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 16 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Rucker Hill Historic District: 13 past producers, 2 producers, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Limestone, Dimension, Iron. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Facility) Everett Smelter Slag Dump | Iron, Silica | Plant | ||
| Associated Sand and Gravel Co Inc | Limestone, Dimension | Producer | ||
| Everett Brick Yard | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Lowell | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Lowell Brick Co | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| N Everett | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Ne Everett | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Everett Pit & Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
6 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Everett, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2017: 2 lightning, 2 funnel cloud, 1 debris flow, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2012 | Debris Flow | Everett | $50,000 | Seven freight cars were knocked off the tracks by a mudslide near Everett. |
| September 2005 | Lightning | Everett | $2,000 | A lightning strike blew a small hole in a house and damaged some electrical outlets. |
| April 2017 | Flash Flood | Everett | - | Heavy rain caused a Flash Flood in Marysville, washing out Heineck Farms. |
| April 2010 | Funnel Cloud | Everett | - | A funnel cloud was spotted between Marysville and Everett. |
| June 1998 | Lightning | Everett | - | Lightning struck the roof of a county courthouse complex, damaging parts of computers and the counties telephone network. Lightning also struck transformers on three power poles. |
| April 2007 | Funnel Cloud | Everett | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Rucker House | under 500 feet | 1975 |
 | Monte Cristo Hotel | 0.7 miles | 1976 |
 | U.S. Post Office and Customshouse | 0.7 miles | 1976 |
 | Everett City Hall | 0.7 miles | 1990 |
 | Snohomish County Courthouse | 0.8 miles | 1975 |
 | Commerce Building | 0.9 miles | 1992 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 89000399 in Record Group 79. |
| Snohomish County | All 52 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.