Sekiu School

Built in 1916. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Clallam County · listed in 1991 · category: Building · built in 1916.

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. Rice St., Sekiu, 98381
When was it listed? May 1991
Category. building
Also known as. Rural Public Schools of Washington State MPS
Census division. Clallam Bay-Neah Bay
When was it built? 1916
National Register reference number. 91000539 - 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

9 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Sekiu School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
30 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	PEARSON CREEK
29 August 2006	Smoking	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
25 August 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
1 August 1997	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
30 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	CARPENTERS CREEK
30 July 1992	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
28 June 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
1 June 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Every fire recorded in Clallam 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 Sekiu School: 6 past producers. None of them 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
Unnamed Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Lake Creek Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Talbot Bar	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Weel Road Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Clallam 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91000539 in Record Group 79.
Clallam County	All 43 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.