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Photograph of Snoqualmie Falls
Photograph by Meher Anand Kasam, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Snoqualmie Falls

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

From the record

“Snoqualmie Falls is a 268-foot (82 m) waterfall in the northwest United States, located east of Seattle on the Snoqualmie River between Snoqualmie and Fall City, Washington. It is one of Washington's most popular scenic attractions and is known internationally for its appearance in the television series Twin Peaks.”

Wikipedia article Snoqualmie Falls, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 324 National Register listings published here for King County · listed in 2009 · category: Site.

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

The listing

  • Address. Snoqualmie R. below crossing of WA 522, Snoqualmie, 98024
  • When was it listed? September 2009
  • Category. site
  • Census division. Snoqualmie Valley
  • National Register reference number. 92000784 - 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

16 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Snoqualmie Falls between 1992 and 2020, burning about 60 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
Recreation and ceremony5
Arson/incendiarism3
Fireworks3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersRAGING RIVER
13 September 1992Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
15 August 2017Fireworksunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSTORMWATER POND
5 July 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersLITTLE ERNIE
5 July 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMICKEY MOUSE
4 July 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersWINERY
29 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Puget Sound Region-Department of Natural ResourcesERNIES GROVE 3
20 July 2013Fireworks2.0 acresMt. Baker-Snoqualmie National ForestECHO LAKE

Every fire recorded in King County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Snoqualmie Falls: 14 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Dimension, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
AnnieCopper, Gold, SilverUnknown
LetaGold, Silver, CopperUnknown
Camp Brown QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer
Mainline 100 PitStone, DimensionPast Producer
Fall City QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Raging River QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Stoen North Bend QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Chisholm PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in King County

Storms near this property

3 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Snoqualmie, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1997 and 2009: 2 flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 1997LightningSnoqualmie1 hurtA woman holding an umbrella was struck by lightning.
January 2009FloodSnoqualmie$14,000,000The cities of Snoqualmie, Carnation, Duvall and Fall City flooded, some residents had to be rescued, many homes were flooded. The Issaquah creek flooded some residences and businesses. It also eroded part of the riverbank, which caused a guest house to fall into the creek. About 40 King County roads were closed. In Pacific, about 1000 people evacuated their homes due to flooding from releases from the Mud Mountain dam, 100 of those homes were damaged, some with 3 feet of water in them.
November 2008FloodSnoqualmie$100,000Major flooding on the Snoqualmie River.

Every storm recorded in King 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 92000784 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
King CountyAll 324 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.