Central Schoolhouse (District No. 49)

Built in 1900. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

One of 159 National Register listings published here for Spokane County · listed in 1992 · category: Building · built in 1900.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Jct. of Ritchey and Four Mound Rds., NW corner, Nine Mile Falls, 99026
When was it listed? August 1992
Category. building
Also known as. Rural Public Schools of Washington State MPS
Census division. Airway Heights
When was it built? 1900
National Register reference number. 92001040 - 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

215 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 215 fires within 5 miles of Central Schoolhouse (District No. 49) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,568 acres in total. 28 started naturally. 7 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	51
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	42
Recreation and ceremony	41
Natural	28
Fireworks	13
Other causes	9
Smoking	9
Arson/incendiarism	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
8 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	DEVILS GAP
7 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	LUPIN LANE
7 September 2006	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
7 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
5 September 2013	Natural	1.2 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	CALHOON
5 September 2000	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
4 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	FISK
4 September 1995	Natural	3.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Every fire recorded in Spokane County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Central Schoolhouse (District No. 49): 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Lunnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Spokane County

Storms near this property

3 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nine Mile Falls, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2016 and 2017: 1 flash flood, 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
March 2017	Flood	Nine Mile Falls	$100,000	The Little Spokane River Gage at Dartford recorded a rise above the Flood Stage of 6.5 feet at 2:45 PM PST March 15th. The river fluctuated slightly above and below Flood Stage before rising again and cresting 6.8 feet at 11:15 AM on March 19th. The river then slowly receded, dropping below Flood Stage at 2:15 AM March 20th.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Nine Mile Falls	-	A two foot diameter Ponderosa Pine tree was uprooted at Sontag Park northwest of Spokane. Several other trees were blown down or snapped in the vicinity.
May 2016	Flash Flood	Nine Mile Falls	-	A member of the public reported water over roadways and entering basements of some homes in and near Nine Mile Falls, WA.

Every storm recorded in Spokane 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

1 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Nine Mile Hydroelectric Power Plant Historic District	7.9 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 92001040 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.