Rochester Elementary School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From 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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 10140 US 12 SW., Rochester, 98579
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. 90000784 - 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

141 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 141 fires within 5 miles of Rochester Elementary School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 915 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	41
Debris and open burning	37
Recreation and ceremony	18
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Fireworks	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Arson/incendiarism	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Natural	3
Smoking	2

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 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
8 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	HWY 12
8 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	268 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	MIMA ROAD
7 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.2 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	INDEPENDENCE RD
7 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	169TH
6 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	LITTLE SCATTER CREEK
6 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	OAKBERG
6 September 2003	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Every fire recorded in Thurston County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 25 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Rochester Elementary School: 24 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Gate Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Gate Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Ames Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Apple Avenue Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Bardeaux Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Delaney Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Grand Mound Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Grand Mound Pit and Plant	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 Thurston 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

5 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
Jaaska House and Warehouse	1.7 miles	1988
Gate School	2.3 miles	1990
Jonas and Maria Lovisa Erickson Farmstead	3.4 miles	2002
State Training School for Girls Administration Building	3.8 miles	1988
Miller-Brewer House	4.3 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90000784 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.