The Sentinel

Built in 1922. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

“The Sentinel is a bronze sculpture of an American soldier and is centrally located in George Washington Park in Centralia, Washington. The statue was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.”
Wikipedia article The Sentinel (Centralia, Washington statue), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 33 National Register listings published here for Lewis County · listed in 1991 · category: Object · built in 1922.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Address. Washington Park, bounded by Main, Pearl, Locust and Silver, Centralia, 98531
When was it listed? December 1991
Category. object
Also known as. Centralia Armistice Day, 1919 MPS
Census division. Centralia-Chehalis
When was it built? 1922
National Register reference number. 91001782 - 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

45 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of The Sentinel between 1992 and 2020, burning about 32 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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	16
Recreation and ceremony	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Natural	2
Other causes	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Fireworks	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	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
28 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.6 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	SCATTER FIRE
22 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
1 September 2000	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
5 August 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	ELIZABETH
31 August 2019	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	GRAF STRIKE
30 August 2019	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	JOPPISH STRIKE

Every fire recorded in Lewis County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of The Sentinel: 14 past producers, 2 producers, 2 occurrences. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica. 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
Centralia	Silica	Occurrence
Centralia	Gemstone	Occurrence
Borrow Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Brown	Clay	Past Producer
Gillingham Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Bernobich Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Centralia Pit & Plant No. 64	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Foron Road Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Hanaford Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Lewis 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
US Post Office-Centralia Main	under 500 feet	1991
Eagle's Hall	0.1 miles	2003
Olympic Club Saloon	0.2 miles	1980
Centralia Union Depot	0.2 miles	1988
George E. Birge House	0.5 miles	1986
Hubbard Bungalow	0.7 miles	2005

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91001782 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lewis County	All 33 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.