Photograph of Woodard Bay Natural Resources Conservation Area — Photograph by Jon Roanhaus, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Weyerhaeuser South Bay Log Dump Rural Historic Landscape

Built in 1987. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

“Woodard Bay Natural Resources Conservation Area is a natural reserve in Olympia, Washington, protected under the Washington Natural Areas Program. Once an important processing facility for the logging industry, it has been designated as the Weyerhaeuser South Bay Log Dump Rural Historic Landscape.”
Wikipedia article Woodard Bay Natural Resources Conservation Area, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 68 National Register listings published here for Thurston County · listed in 1991 · category: District · built in 1987.

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

The listing

Address. 609 Whitham Rd., Olympia, 98506
When was it listed? October 1991
Category. district
Census division. Olympia
When was it built? 1987
National Register reference number. 91001441 - 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

54 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Weyerhaeuser South Bay Log Dump Rural Historic Landscape between 1992 and 2020, burning about 29 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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	23
Recreation and ceremony	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Fireworks	6
Arson/incendiarism	3
Smoking	2
Other causes	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
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
6 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
14 September 1999	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
12 September 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	GULL HARBOR
12 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
11 September 1993	Other causes	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
9 August 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
4 August 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	130
31 August 2013	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	MAPLES ROAD

Every fire recorded in Thurston County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Weyerhaeuser South Bay Log Dump Rural Historic Landscape: 3 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
Quarry 2849-4.1	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Ames Huntly Road Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
O & K Trucking Co. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Thurston County

Storms near this property

2 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Olympia, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2001 and 2006: 1 funnel cloud, 1 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
January 2006	Heavy Rain	Olympia	$30,000	no account filed
May 2001	Funnel Cloud	Olympia	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Thurston 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.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Dofflemyer Point Light	2.9 miles	1995
Radio Station KGY	6.1 miles	2024
Meyer House	6.2 miles	1985
Calvin and Pamela Hale House	6.2 miles	1984
Daniel R. Bigelow House	6.5 miles	1979
Tugboat Parthia	6.5 miles	2023

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91001441 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Thurston County	All 68 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.