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One of 73 National Register listings published here for Yakima County · listed in 1991 · category: Building · built in 1937.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
US Post Office-Sunnyside Main
Built in 1937. 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--Sunnyside Main - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 713 E. Edison Ave., Sunnyside, 98944
- When was it listed? May 1991
- Category. building
- Also known as. Historic US Post Offices in Washington MPS
- Census division. Sunnyside
- When was it built? 1937
- National Register reference number. 91000656 - 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
2 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of US Post Office-Sunnyside Main in 1997, burning about 5 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 May 1997 | Debris and open burning | 2.5 acres | Toppenish National Wildlife Refuge | TOCHAMP |
| 19 May 1997 | Debris and open burning | 2.5 acres | Toppenish National Wildlife Refuge | CHAMBERS |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 12 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of US Post Office-Sunnyside Main: 9 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Pumice, Diatomite. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Snipes Mountain | Pumice | Occurrence | ||
| Sunnyside | Diatomite | Occurrence | ||
| Top Snipes Mountain | Silica | Prospect | ||
| Emerald Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Miller Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Patch Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Sheller Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Snipes Mountain Gravel | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Snipes Mountain Gravel | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
7 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sunnyside, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2001 and 2013: 3 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 dust devil, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2005 | Flash Flood | Sunnyside | $2,000 | no account filed |
| February 2003 | Dust Devil | Sunnyside | $1,000 | A dust devil led to some damage of a winery. The dust devil lifted a roof off of the walls of the winery, and lifted some of the cinder blocks of the building, sending them to the ground. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sunnyside | - | News reported that power lines were down near the local Bi-Mart. |
| July 2012 | Hail | Sunnyside | - | Hail accompanied by heavy rainfall. |
| July 2012 | Hail | Sunnyside | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Flash Flood | Sunnyside | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Sunnyside | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grandview Road-Yellowstone Trail | 5.1 miles | 1995 | |
| Grandview Road-Yellowstone Trail | 5.9 miles | 1995 | |
 | Grandview High School | 6.7 miles | 1987 |
 | Grandview Herald Building | 7.0 miles | 1987 |
 | Grandview State Bank | 7.0 miles | 1987 |
 | Howay-Dykstra House | 7.1 miles | 1987 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 91000656 in Record Group 79. |
| Yakima County | All 73 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.