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One of 159 National Register listings published here for Spokane County · listed in 1991 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
West Valley High School
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.
- Address. N. 2805 Argonne Rd., Millwood, 99212
- When was it listed? November 1991
- Category. building
- Also known as. Rural Public Schools of Washington State MPS
- Census division. Spokane
- National Register reference number. 91001736 - 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
387 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 387 fires within 5 miles of West Valley High School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,856 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 48 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 139 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 84 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 48 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 36 |
| Debris and open burning | 21 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 14 |
| Natural | 13 |
| Fireworks | 11 |
| Smoking | 11 |
| Other causes | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
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 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 14 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 8 September 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | HOT PURSUIT |
| 8 September 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 7 September 1996 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 7 September 1994 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 7 September 1994 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 5 September 2018 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | MIRABEAU RIVER |
| 5 September 2018 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | ESMERALDA |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 35 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 35 workings within 5 miles of West Valley High School: 29 past producers, 3 occurrences, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica, Granite. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bigelow Gulch | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Occurrence | ||
| Empire Granite Quarry | Granite, Silica, Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Dishman | Silica | Occurrence | ||
| Mead | Silica | Past Producer | ||
| Spokane Silica Sand Deposit | Silica | Occurrence | ||
| Center and Perry St. Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Havana and 10th Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
4 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Millwood, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2002 and 2016: 2 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2002 | Lightning | Millwood | $15,000 | Lightning struck the roof of an apartment building north of the intersection of Sprague and Argonne, igniting a fire that burned a 6-by-22 foot hole in the roof of the apartment. The residents of the apartment escaped without injury. |
| August 2016 | Lightning | Millwood | $5,000 | A NWS Employee reported that a home in the Spokane Valley of Spokane, WA was damaged by a lightning strike. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Millwood | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Millwood | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Millwood Historic District | 0.4 miles | 2001 |
 | Rosebush House | 0.4 miles | 2000 |
 | Hutton Settlement | 1.6 miles | 1976 |
| Felts Field Historic District | 1.7 miles | 1991 | |
| Hutton Settlement District (Boundary Increase) | 1.8 miles | 1994 | |
 | Royal Riblet House | 2.0 miles | 1979 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 91001736 in Record Group 79. |
| Spokane County | All 159 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.