Nisqually School

Built in 1911. 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 · built in 1911.

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 341 Nisqually Cut-Off Rd. SE, Olympia, 98513
When was it listed? August 1990
Category. building
Also known as. Rural Public Schools of Washington State MPS
Census division. Olympia East
When was it built? 1911
National Register reference number. 90001248 - 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

217 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 217 fires within 5 miles of Nisqually School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 194 acres in total. None started naturally. 12 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	52
Recreation and ceremony	48
Debris and open burning	31
Fireworks	24
Misuse of fire by a minor	16
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Arson/incendiarism	12
Railroad operations and maintenance	9
Smoking	8
Other causes	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	SEVEN OAKS
7 September 1992	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
6 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
6 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
5 September 1998	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.5 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
4 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	TOLMIE
4 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	RIVER RIDGE
4 September 2000	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Every fire recorded in Thurston County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Nisqually School: 7 past producers, 3 producers, 1 prospect. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
St. Clair Lake	Iron	Prospect
Fleetwood Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gleason Kearney Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Lacey Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Nisqually Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Nisqually Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Olympia Sand & Gravel Co. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Tom Martin Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Thurston County

Storms near this property

2 since 2001

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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
January 2006	Heavy Rain	Olympia	$30,000	no account filed
May 2001	Funnel Cloud	Olympia	-	no account filed

Every storm 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

4 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
Union Mills Superintendent's House	3.6 miles	1988
Long Lake Recreation Hall	4.5 miles	1988
Chamber's Prairie-Ruddell Pioneer Cemetery	5.8 miles	1995
Stoecker, Richard & Lydia	8.0 miles	2015

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90001248 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.