Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
From the record
“The Smith Hospital and Douglas County Press Building is a historic landmark in Waterville, Washington, United States. It was constructed in 1913 and is associated with the medical and publishing history of Waterville and Douglas County.”
Wikipedia article Smith Hospital and Douglas County Press Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 12 National Register listings published here for Douglas County · listed in 1989 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.89000402- 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
6 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Smith Hospital and Douglas County Press Building
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 44 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning
2
Natural
1
Arson/incendiarism
1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1
Fireworks
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
8 August 1992
Arson/incendiarism
20 acres
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
28 July 2020
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Douglas County Fire Districts
MP 151
14 July 2014
Natural
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
COUGAR FLATS
14 July 2009
Fireworks
15 acres
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
Q ROAD
9 October 2020
Debris and open burning
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
DEER CREEK
5 October 2019
Debris and open burning
8.7 acres
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
6 workings within 5 miles of Smith Hospital and Douglas County Press Building: 6 past producers.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Waterville, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 4 debris flow, 3 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail.
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.
Highway 2 at Pine Canyon was closed due to mud and debris covering the roadway for a period of time. The road was covered in six to eight inches of debris. The water dug three to four foot trenches within the drainage. The Douglas RAWS reported six tenths of rainfall in an one hour period.
The Washington Department of Highways reported a large rock slide on US-2 in Pine Canyon. The debris covered approximately 300 yards, which included many large rocks. The highway was closed from MP140 near Orondo to MP148 near Waterville. There was no known time of reopening the road at time of report.
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.
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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