Snoqualmie Falls Hydroelectric Power Plant Historic District
Built in 1898. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
From the record
“The Snoqualmie Falls Hydroelectric Plant is located just north of Snoqualmie in King County, Washington state, US. It is situated about 22 mi (35 km) east of Seattle.”
Wikipedia article Snoqualmie Falls Hydroelectric Plant, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 324 National Register listings published here for King County · listed in 1992 · category: District · built in 1898.
Also known as. Hydroelectric Power Plants in Washington State, 1890-1938 MPS
Census division. Snoqualmie Valley
When was it built? 1898
National Register reference number.92001324- 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 Hydroelectric Power Plant Historic District
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 ceremony
5
Arson/incendiarism
3
Fireworks
3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
2
Equipment and vehicle use
2
Debris and open burning
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 2017
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
RAGING RIVER
13 September 1992
Recreation and ceremony
1.5 acres
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
15 August 2017
Fireworks
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
STORMWATER POND
5 July 2019
Debris and open burning
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
LITTLE ERNIE
5 July 2008
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
MICKEY MOUSE
4 July 2020
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
WINERY
29 July 2020
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
South Puget Sound Region-Department of Natural Resources
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
17 workings within 5 miles of Snoqualmie Falls Hydroelectric Power Plant Historic District: 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.
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.
The 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.
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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