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One of 20 National Register listings published here for Pacific County · listed in 1991 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
US Post Office-Raymond Main
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.
- Listed as. US Post Office--Raymond Main - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 406 Duryea St., Raymond, 98577
- When was it listed? May 1991
- Category. building
- Also known as. Historic US Post Offices in Washington MPS
- Census division. Raymond
- Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
- National Register reference number. 91000654 - 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
52 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of US Post Office-Raymond Main between 1992 and 2020, burning about 88 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 5 were 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 22 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 8 September 1999 | Smoking | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 4 September 2015 | Natural | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | A 100 |
| 4 September 1992 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 30 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | PATRICK FIRE |
| 3 September 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 29 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | WARD CREEK |
| 28 September 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 15 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of US Post Office-Raymond Main: 12 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| D-4 Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| South Bend | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Willapa No. 2 | Clay | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit Ing Co | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| City of South Bend Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Johnson Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| N. Willapa River Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| South Bend Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
2 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Raymond, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2012: 1 heavy rain, 1 flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2012 | Flood | Raymond | - | Heavy rain caused the Willapa River near Willapa to overflow its banks and flood low lying areas. The Willapa River crested at 23.9 feet on November 19th at 9 pm PST, 2.9 feet above flood stage. |
| January 2009 | Heavy Rain | Raymond | - | Heavy rain resulted the closure of highway 6 outside of Raymond due to high water. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Raymond Theater | under 500 feet | 1991 |
 | Raymond Public Library | 0.5 miles | 1979 |
 | Russell House | 2.9 miles | 1977 |
 | Lumber Exchange Building | 4.0 miles | 1988 |
 | Pacific County Courthouse | 4.1 miles | 1977 |
 | South Bend Carnegie Public Library | 4.1 miles | 1982 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 91000654 in Record Group 79. |
| Pacific County | All 20 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.