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One of 43 National Register listings published here for Clallam County · listed in 1991 · category: Building · built in 1906.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Sequim Opera House
Built in 1906. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 119 N. Sequim Ave., Sequim, 98382
- When was it listed? May 1991
- Category. building
- Census division. Sequim
- When was it built? 1906
- National Register reference number. 91000632 - 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
40 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Sequim Opera House between 1996 and 2019, burning about 36 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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 | 13 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Fireworks | 4 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 5 September 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | GREYS MARSH |
| 3 September 2017 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | RIVERVIEW |
| 27 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 25 September 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 19 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 17 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | TOAD ROAD #2 |
| 14 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | TOAD ROAD |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 18 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Sequim Opera House: 15 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Dimension, Manganese. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Olympic Peninsula Mn - 0530310200 | Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese | Past Producer | ||
| Hallers Pit | Stone, Dimension | Producer | ||
| One Ok Quarry | Stone, Dimension | Past Producer | ||
| Almaden Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Christie Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Eberle Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Evans Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Hansen Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Hastings Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Lotzgazelle Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
2 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sequim, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1999 and 2015: 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 1999 | Heavy Rain | Sequim | $100,000 | no account filed |
| March 2015 | Heavy Rain | Sequim | $30,000 | Several homes and apartments around Sequim were flooded as a result of local heavy rainfall of 1 to 2 inches in less than 12 hours. |
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 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Dungeness River Bridge | 2.1 miles | 1982 |
 | Dungeness School | 4.5 miles | 1988 |
 | McAlmond House | 5.1 miles | 1976 |
 | New Dungeness Light Station | 7.0 miles | 1993 |
 | Aircraft Warning Service Observation Tower | 7.1 miles | 1993 |
 | Emery Farmstead | 7.4 miles | 1988 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 91000632 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.
- 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.