Photograph of Puget Sound Naval Shipyard Historic District — Photograph by Unknown, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Building 50

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“Puget Sound Naval Shipyard is a large military-industrial complex located in Bremerton, Washington along the north shore of Sinclair Inlet, which opens to Puget Sound. This large shipyard is 1.5 miles (2.4 km) in length along the shore and over a half-mile in width at its greatest distance across.”
Wikipedia article Puget Sound Naval Shipyard Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 23 National Register listings published here for Kitsap County · listed in 1992 · category: Building · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

National Historic Landmark. The highest federal designation, held by about 2,600 places in the country against roughly 100,000 Register listings.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 42 structuress, 22 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. N shore of Sinclair Inlet, Bremerton, 98337
When was it listed? August 1992
Category. building
Census division. Bremerton
National Register reference number. 92001883 - 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

6 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Building 50 between 1992 and 2018, burning about 10 acres in total. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
30 August 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	DOWN TIMBER
29 August 2002	Smoking	2.5 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
21 August 2002	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.5 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
16 August 1992	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
24 July 2014	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	SPACE BLANKET
18 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	4.3 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	WERNER RD

Every fire recorded in Kitsap County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Building 50: 19 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Stone. 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
Kitsap Quarry	Stone	Producer
Port Orchard	Clay	Past Producer
Bourn Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Charleston Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Olsen Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Pioneer Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Reynolds Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unnamed Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Waterman Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Wilson Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Kitsap County

Storms near this property

3 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bremerton, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1997 and 1999: 1 debris flow, 1 heavy rain, 1 lightning. The reports record 4 injuries. 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 1997	Heavy Rain	Bremerton	3 hurt, $750,000	no account filed
July 1999	Lightning	Bremerton	1 hurt	A woman was injured after being struck by lightning. She was released from the hospital the next day with an aching arm and a headache.
January 1997	Debris Flow	Bremerton	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kitsap 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Bremerton Elks Temple Lodge No. 1181 Building	0.2 miles	1995
Bremerton Elks Temple Lodge No. 1181 Building	0.2 miles	1995
US Post Office-Bremerton Main	0.3 miles	1991
Coder-Coleman House	0.6 miles	2009
Officers' Row Historic District	0.6 miles	1990
Puget Sound Radio Station Historic District	0.7 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 92001883 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kitsap County	All 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.