Beaver School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Clallam County · listed in 1992 · category: Building.

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 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. US 101 N, W side, Beaver, 98305
When was it listed? November 1992
Category. building
Also known as. Rural Public Schools of Washington State MPS
Census division. Forks
Architect. Harold Ginnold
National Register reference number. 92001591 - 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

29 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Beaver School between 1992 and 2019, burning about 9 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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	11
Recreation and ceremony	10
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Smoking	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Other causes	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
8 September 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
7 September 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	NORTH HWY 101
23 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
18 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	BROKEN BOAT FIRE
16 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
15 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
9 August 2009	Smoking	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	LAKE CREEK FIRE
6 August 2000	Smoking	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Every fire recorded in Clallam County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Beaver School: 6 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Mercury. 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	Recorded
Kathryn K. Prospect	Manganese, Mercury	Occurrence	Bementite, Cinnabar, Hausmannite
State Lease	Manganese, Mercury	Past Producer	1942, 1955
Beaver Falls Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Kathryn K. Prospect	Manganese	Prospect	1958
State Lease Mine	Manganese	Past Producer	1953
Wild Cat	Manganese	Unknown

Every working recorded in Clallam 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 92001591 in Record Group 79.
Clallam County	All 43 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.