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One of 68 National Register listings published here for Thurston County · listed in 1990 · category: Building · built in 1934.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Ticknor School
Built in 1934. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 7212 Skookumchuck Rd. SE., Tenino, 98589
- When was it listed? May 1990
- Category. building
- Also known as. Rural Public Schools of Washington State MPS
- Census division. Thurston South
- When was it built? 1934
- National Register reference number. 90000708 - 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
55 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Ticknor School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 109 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 19 |
| Debris and open burning | 13 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 5 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Natural | 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 1996 | Other causes | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 8 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 8 September 1997 | Other causes | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 24 September 2000 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 15 September 2016 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 6.4 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | BUCODA |
| 11 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | BOAT LAUNCH |
| 10 September 1996 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 8 August 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | JOHNSON RANGE |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Ticknor School: 7 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Flagstone, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Skookumchuck Pit | Stone | Producer | ||
| Weyerhaeuser Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Hercules Quarry | Flagstone | Past Producer | ||
| Western Quarry | Flagstone | Past Producer | ||
| Crowder Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Johnson Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Mcconnell Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Stevens Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Tono A Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Tono B Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence |
Storms near this property
1 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tenino, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2004: 1 tornado. 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 2004 | Tornado (F1) | Tenino | $50,000 | A tornado damaged a barn, some trees, and a nearby apartment. |
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
5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seatco Prison Site | 2.8 miles | 1975 | |
 | Tenino Stone Company Quarry | 4.0 miles | 1983 |
 | Tenino Depot | 4.1 miles | 1974 |
 | Colvin House | 4.2 miles | 1988 |
 | Tenino Downtown Historic District | 4.2 miles | 2004 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 90000708 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.