BlockFrom the record
One of 68 National Register listings published here for Thurston County · listed in 1990 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Lackamas School
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 16240, 16312 Bald Hill Rd. SE., Yelm, 98597
- When was it listed? May 1990
- Category. building
- Also known as. Rural Public Schools of Washington State MPS
- Census division. Thurston South
- National Register reference number. 90000707 - 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
81 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Lackamas School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 88 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 34 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 21 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Fireworks | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.5 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 27 September 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 26 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 24 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | LACAMAS FIRE |
| 22 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 15 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | 8TH AVE S |
| 14 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 12 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Lackamas School: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Longmire Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
3 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yelm, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1997 and 2017: 1 hail, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Yelm | $700,000 | Severe thunderstorm wind gusts peaked around 70 mph during the event between 3 and 5 PM, knocking down trees and power lines leaving nearly 50,000 without power. Several homes had trees fall on them. |
| October 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Yelm | $5,000 | A weak tornado, on the ground for less than a minute, damaged a few power lines and knocked down some tree limbs. |
| September 1997 | Hail | Yelm | - | A thunderstorm with golf ball sized hail broke car windshields in Yelm. |
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
3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Johnson House | 4.1 miles | 1988 | |
 | L. N. Rice House | 5.7 miles | 1988 |
 | Salsich Lumber Company Superintendent's House | 6.5 miles | 1988 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 90000707 in Record Group 79. |
| Thurston County | All 68 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.