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Photograph of Edith Creek Chlorination House
Photograph by Ben Cody, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Edith Creek Chlorination House

Built in 1930 (rustic architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

“The Edith Creek Chlorination House is a historic structure in Mount Rainier National Park, built by the National Park Service in 1930. The rustic structure was built as part of the water supply system to the Paradise area.”

Wikipedia article Edith Creek Chlorination House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 215 National Register listings published here for Pierce County · listed in 1991 · category: Structure · built in 1930, rustic architecture.

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Mt. Rainier National Park, Paradise, 98304
  • When was it listed? March 1991
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Mt. Rainier National Park MPS
  • Census division. Mount Rainier
  • When was it built? 1930
  • Architectural style. rustic architecture
  • National Register reference number. 91000201 - 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

38 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Edith Creek Chlorination House between 1992 and 2018, burning about 27 acres in total. 26 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
Natural26
Recreation and ceremony9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
23 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMount Rainier National ParkNISQUALLY FIRE
3 August 1999Naturalunder an acreMount Rainier National ParkVISTA
3 August 1999Naturalunder an acreMount Rainier National ParkMAZAMA
27 August 2000Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMount Rainier National ParkB23
25 August 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMount Rainier National ParkVANTRUMP1
24 August 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMount Rainier National ParkCOUGARROCK
10 August 2000Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMount Rainier National ParkE25
10 August 2000Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMount Rainier National ParkB16

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Edith Creek Chlorination House: 4 past producers, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Geothermal, Arsenic, Tungsten, Gold, Silver, Cobalt, Uranium, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Eagle PeakTungsten, Gold, Silver, Cobalt, Uranium, CopperOccurrenceBornite, Chalcopyrite, Linnaeite, Molybdenite, Scheelite, Sphalerite
Eagle PeakCopper, Uranium, Silver, Gold, CobaltPast Producer
Eagle Peak MineCopper, Cobalt, Silver, Gold, Tungsten, Zinc, Molybdenum, Uranium, ArsenicPast ProducerBornite, Chalcopyrite, Covellite, Linnaeite, Molybdenite, Pyrite, Scheelite, Sphalerite
Longmire Hot SpringsGeothermalProducer
Paradise ProspectCopper, ArsenicPast ProducerBornite, Chalcopyrite, Pyrite
ParadiseCopperPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pierce 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

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Paradise Inn0.5 miles1987
Paradise Historic District0.5 miles1991
Narada Falls Comfort Station1.4 miles1991
Narada Falls Bridge1.4 miles1991
Christine Falls Bridge2.4 miles1991
Camp Muir2.9 miles1991

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 91000201 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Pierce CountyAll 215 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.