Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.
From the record
“The Pennsylvania Avenue-West Side Historic District is a neighborhood located in Chehalis, Washington and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) since 1991. The district is one of three NRHP neighborhoods in the city, including the Chehalis Downtown Historic District and the Hillside Historic District.”
Wikipedia article Pennsylvania Avenue-West Side Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 33 National Register listings published here for Lewis County · listed in 1991 · category: District.
National Register reference number.91001721- 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
58 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Pennsylvania Avenue-West Side Historic District
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 118 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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
21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
11
Recreation and ceremony
9
Smoking
4
Misuse of fire by a minor
3
Fireworks
2
Arson/incendiarism
2
Natural
2
Equipment and vehicle use
2
Other causes
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
9 September 2006
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
8 September 1998
Recreation and ceremony
2.0 acres
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
5 September 1998
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
29 September 2016
Debris and open burning
1.0 acres
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
B & D
14 September 2014
Misuse of fire by a minor
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
BROCKWAY
13 September 2000
Debris and open burning
3.0 acres
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
11 September 2016
Debris and open burning
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
PROFFITT RD
1 September 2012
Smoking
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
12 workings within 5 miles of Pennsylvania Avenue-West Side Historic District: 11 past producers, 1 occurrence.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Chehalis, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2013: 1 lightning.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
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.
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.
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