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US Post Office-Port Townsend Main

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

“United States Post Office - Port Townsend Main is a Richardsonian Romanesque building completed in 1893 on a bluff above Port Townsend's waterfront. It was intended to serve as a Federal building that would include a customhouse serving Port Townsend's incipient role in world trade.”
Wikipedia article United States Post Office - Port Townsend Main, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 75 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 1991 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Listed as. US Post Office--Port Townsend Main - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 1322 Washington, Port Townsend, 98312
When was it listed? May 1991
Category. building
Also known as. Historic US Post Offices in Washington MPS
Architectural style. Romanesque Revival architecture
Architect. Mifflin E. Bell
National Register reference number. 91000652 - 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

35 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of US Post Office-Port Townsend Main between 1993 and 2020, burning about 34 acres in total. 1 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	10
Recreation and ceremony	9
Debris and open burning	4
Smoking	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Fireworks	2
Natural	1
Other causes	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	EAGLE ROCK
7 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
25 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	1.5 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
23 September 2000	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
2 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.2 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
14 September 2003	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
7 August 2008	Smoking	4.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	BIO
30 August 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	CLIMBING WALL

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 27 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of US Post Office-Port Townsend Main: 20 past producers, 5 producers, 1 unknown, 1 prospect. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Granite, Cobalt. 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
Chico	Tungsten, Tin, Silver, Gold, Copper	Prospect
Elmer Nelson Property	Cobalt	Unknown
Kitsap Quarry	Stone	Producer
Camp Union Quarry	Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Green Mountain Quarry	Granite	Past Producer
Bourn Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Charleston Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Pioneer Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unnamed Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unnamed Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this property

1 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Port Townsend, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1999: 1 lightning. 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
August 1999	Lightning	Port Townsend	$15,500	A house was struck by lightning, causing structural and electrical damage.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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 91000652 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jefferson County	All 75 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.