Bethsaida Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church Parsonage

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

“Bethsaida Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church Parsonage is a historic church parsonage in La Conner, Washington. Bethsaida Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church was built in 1890.”
Wikipedia article Bethsaida Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church Parsonage, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 33 National Register listings published here for Skagit County · listed in 1990 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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. 1754 Chilberg Rd., Pleasant Ridge, La Conner, 98273
When was it listed? December 1990
Category. building
Census division. La Conner
National Register reference number. 90001863 - 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

18 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Bethsaida Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church Parsonage between 1994 and 2020, burning about 8 acres in total. None 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
Recreation and ceremony	8
Debris and open burning	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Fireworks	2
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
3 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	SOLAHDWH LANE
15 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	DEAD MAN
24 August 2002	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
20 August 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
17 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	ROTTEN DOG
9 July 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	SNEE-OOSH
5 July 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Fire Marshal's Office	GUNDERSON
5 July 2001	Fireworks	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Every fire recorded in Skagit County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Bethsaida Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church Parsonage: 6 unknowns, 3 occurrences, 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Nickel, Arsenic, 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	Recorded
Alverson	Nickel, Arsenic	Occurrence	Realgar
Alverson Deposit	Strontium, Nickel	Occurrence
Dunlap Towing Co	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Quarry	Stone	Unknown
Swinomish Bay	Magnesite, Nickel	Occurrence
La Conner	Nickel	Prospect
Bar Sand and Gravel, Inc.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Commercial Excavating Co., Inc	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gorton Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Skagit 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
La Conner Historic District	2.5 miles	1974
Skagit City School	3.8 miles	1977
Lincoln Theater and Commercial Block	5.2 miles	1987
President Hotel	5.2 miles	2010

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90001863 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Skagit County	All 33 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.