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Photograph of Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad-Kittitas Depot
Photograph by Jayedgerton, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Milwaukee Chicago St. Paul & Pacific Railroad-Kittitas Depot

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“Paul & Pacific Railroad-Kittitas Depot is a railroad station in Kittitas, Washington, United States, that was built in 1909 by the Chicago, Milwaukee and Puget Sound Railway as part of the railroad's Pacific Extension.”

Wikipedia article Kittitas Depot, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 23 National Register listings published here for Kittitas County · listed in 1992 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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.
  • Listed as. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad--Kittitas Depot - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. Jct. of Railroad Ave. and Main St., Kittitas, 98934
  • When was it listed? November 1992
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Milwaukee Road MPS
  • Census division. Kittitas
  • Architect. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad
  • National Register reference number. 92001582 - 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

4 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Milwaukee Chicago St. Paul & Pacific Railroad-Kittitas Depot between 1992 and 2020, burning about 12 acres in total. 1 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
Natural1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Arson/incendiarism1
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
11 September 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersHOME STEAD
11 June 1992Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
18 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKittitas County Fire DistrictsDENMARK
28 February 2020Debris and open burning2.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersVANTAGE HIGHWAY

Every fire recorded in Kittitas County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Milwaukee Chicago St. Paul & Pacific Railroad-Kittitas Depot: 11 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Geothermal. 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
Clerf SpringGeothermalProducer
Ellensburg DepositClayPast Producer
Hall Pit C-33Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Johnston CanyonClayPast Producer
Regan QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Loter PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Olds Pit C-6Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Schnebly Pit C-28Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Smith PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Kittitas County

Storms near this property

3 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kittitas, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2013 and 2019: 2 funnel cloud, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2019Funnel CloudEast Kittitas-Multiple photos of a funnel cloud via social media. Exact location unknown, but no ground circulation was apparent and no damage reported.
September 2019Funnel CloudEast Kittitas-Several pictures on social media depicting a funnel cloud. No ground circulation confirmed and no damage reported.
June 2013HailKittitas-Along with hail, several tree branches 1.5 inches in diameter were down in the observers year. Power was out as well.

Every storm recorded in Kittitas 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Olmstead Place State Park2.5 miles1971
Kittitas County Fairgrounds5.5 miles1999
Washington State Normal School Building5.9 miles1976
Downtown Ellensburg Historic District6.1 miles1977
First Railroad Addition Historic District6.1 miles1987
Dr. Paschal and Agnes Gray House6.2 miles1997

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 92001582 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kittitas CountyAll 23 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.