Holy Trinity Orthodox Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

From the record

“Holy Trinity Orthodox Church is a historic church in Wilkeson, Washington. The church was founded by Eastern European Slavic immigrants from the Carpathian Mountains of eastern Czechoslovakia.”
Wikipedia article Holy Trinity Orthodox Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 215 National Register listings published here for Pierce County · listed in 1989 · category: Building.

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. 433 Long St., Wilkeson, 98396
When was it listed? September 1989
Category. building
Census division. Buckley
National Register reference number. 89001606 - 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 Holy Trinity Orthodox Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 62 acres in total. 2 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	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Debris and open burning	10
Other causes	4
Fireworks	3
Natural	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	156TH SREET
7 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	SOUTH PRAIRIE CREEK
5 September 1997	Natural	2.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
4 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
24 September 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
21 September 1994	Other causes	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
18 September 1992	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
10 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	PRAIRIE CARBON

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Holy Trinity Orthodox Church: 15 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Flagstone, Graphite. 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
Prairie Creek	Graphite	Occurrence
Walker Quarry	Flagstone	Past Producer
Burlington Northern Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Carbon Ridge Blowdown	Stone	Past Producer
Clearwest-Westfork Pit	Stone	Past Producer
Road 0602 Pit 1818	Stone	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Pierce 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

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Wilkeson Community House	0.2 miles	2013
Wilkeson Arch	0.3 miles	2000
Wilkeson School	0.4 miles	1976
Coke Ovens	0.4 miles	1974
Walker Cut Stone Company	0.7 miles	1978
William Bisson House	3.3 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 89001606 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Pierce County	All 215 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.