Built in 1910. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
From the record
“The Delphi School is a historic building in Delphi, Washington, listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1990. The building is a one-story, rectangular structure on a concrete foundation containing a single classroom.”
Wikipedia article Delphi School, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 68 National Register listings published here for Thurston County · listed in 1990 · category: Building · built in 1910.
Also known as. Rural Public Schools of Washington State MPS
Census division. Olympia West
When was it built? 1910
National Register reference number.90001075- 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
158 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 158 fires within 5 miles of Delphi School
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 103 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 7 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
60
Recreation and ceremony
36
Debris and open burning
27
Misuse of fire by a minor
8
Arson/incendiarism
7
Fireworks
5
Smoking
5
Equipment and vehicle use
4
Natural
2
Other causes
2
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
Railroad operations and maintenance
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 September 2005
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
OLYMPIC PEAK
7 September 2020
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
WEBSTER
5 September 2020
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
COOLER
5 September 2018
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
TROSPER LAKE
4 September 1998
Smoking
1.0 acres
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
30 September 1993
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
28 September 2002
Debris and open burning
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
27 September 2008
Arson/incendiarism
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
13 workings within 5 miles of Delphi School: 12 past producers, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Dimension. 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
Olympia, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2001 and 2006: 1 funnel cloud, 1 heavy rain.
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.
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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