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One of 19 National Register listings published here for Stevens County · listed in 1992 · category: Building · built in 1929.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Loon Lake School
Built in 1929. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 4000 Colville Rd., Loon Lake, 99148
- When was it listed? November 1992
- Category. building
- Also known as. Rural Public Schools of Washington State MPS
- Census division. Springdale
- When was it built? 1929
- National Register reference number. 92001592 - 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
168 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 168 fires within 5 miles of Loon Lake School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 161 acres in total. 29 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 | 49 |
| Natural | 29 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 27 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 13 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 12 |
| Fireworks | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 10 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Other causes | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | EAST LAKE DEER |
| 9 September 2012 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | LYONS MOSS |
| 8 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | GARDEN SPOT |
| 7 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | SUNSET BAY |
| 7 September 1992 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 5 September 2003 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 4 September 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 29 September 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | HUNGRY BUMP |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 16 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Loon Lake School: 7 unknowns, 4 producers, 3 prospects, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Iron, Silica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleveland Mine | Lead, Antimony, Silver, Zinc | Producer | Boulangerite, Galena, Sphalerite, Stibnite, Tetrahedrite | |
| Dept. of Hwys | Stone, Dimension | Unknown | ||
| Gaber | Tungsten | Prospect | ||
| Steinmetz | Silica | Unknown | ||
| Trampus Prospect | Copper | Occurrence | ||
| U. S. Gypsum Quarry | Limestone, Dimension | Unknown | ||
| A. B. Pit | Clay | Producer | ||
| Clayton | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Deer Lake | Iron | Prospect | ||
| Deer Lake Road | Iron | Prospect |
Storms near this property
1 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Loon Lake, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2014: 1 flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2014 | Flood | Loon Lake | - | A trained spotter located three miles northeast of Loon Lake reported two to three inches of standing water on property and around the area. There were no known road closures from flooding. |
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 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Clayton School | 5.6 miles | 2003 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 92001592 in Record Group 79. |
| Stevens County | All 19 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.