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Photograph of Emmanuel Episcopal Church
Photograph by Joe Mabel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Emmanuel Episcopal Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

From the record

“Emmanuel Episcopal Church is a historic Carpenter Gothic church located on Main Street in Eastsound on Orcas Island, Washington. On December 12, 1994, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.”

Wikipedia article Emmanuel Episcopal Church (Eastsound, Washington), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 21 National Register listings published here for San Juan County · listed in 1994 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Main St., Eastsound, 98245
  • When was it listed? December 1994
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Orcas
  • National Register reference number. 94001431 - 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

19 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Emmanuel Episcopal Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8 acres in total. 2 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
Recreation and ceremony5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning2
Smoking2
Natural2
Fireworks2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1

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
6 September 1992Recreation and ceremony2.5 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
16 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersCROW VALLEY
15 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwest Region-Department of Natural ResourcesBONNIE BRAE
10 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwest Region-Department of Natural ResourcesSEAVIEW
9 August 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
25 August 1996Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
16 August 2003Smokingunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
14 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwest Region-Department of Natural ResourcesSHADOW

Every fire recorded in San Juan County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 27 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of Emmanuel Episcopal Church: 13 occurrences, 12 past producers, 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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
Mcgraw-Kittinger DepositLimestone, General, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
North Beach QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProspect
Orcas IslandClayPast Producer
Sucia Island QuarriesFlagstonePast Producer
Sea Island PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Buck Mountain Deposit No. 1Limestone, GeneralPast Producer
Camp Indralaya DepositLimestone, GeneralOccurrence
Double Hill Deposit No. 1Limestone, GeneralOccurrence

Every working recorded in San Juan 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
Crow Valley School2.6 miles1987
Rosario3.6 miles1978
Moran State Park4.0 miles2013
Krumdiack Homestead5.5 miles1993
Doe Bay General Store and Post Office6.9 miles1986
Orcas Hotel6.9 miles1982

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 94001431 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
San Juan CountyAll 21 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.