Peter Smith Farm-Donation Land Claim

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

One of 215 National Register listings published here for Pierce County · listed in 1995 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Listed as. Smith, Peter, Farm--Donation Land Claim - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 12504 Spanaway Loop Rd., Parkland, 98444
When was it listed? March 1995
Category. building
Census division. Tacoma
National Register reference number. 95000194 - 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

2 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Peter Smith Farm-Donation Land Claim between 2002 and 2019, burning about 20 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
31 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	ROY Y
18 April 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Peter Smith Farm-Donation Land Claim: 15 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Diatomite. 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
Parkland	Diatomite	Occurrence
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Holroyd Land Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Lakeview Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Pierce 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
Old Main	1.0 miles	1984
Parkland Lutheran Children's Home	1.4 miles	1996
McChord Field Historic District	1.4 miles	2008
Emma Smith DeVoe House	1.5 miles	1993
Boatman-Ainsworth Hose	2.7 miles	1982
Fire Station No. 10	3.3 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 95000194 in Record Group 79.
Pierce County	All 215 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.