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Photograph of MV Plover
Photograph by Froggerlaura, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

MV PLOVER (ferry)

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

“MV Plover is an 11-ton, 17-passenger ferry in Whatcom County, Washington, built in 1944, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. She is owned and operated by the City of Blaine, Washington.”

Wikipedia article MV Plover, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 74 National Register listings published here for Whatcom County · listed in 1997 · category: Object.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 object as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 245 Marine Dr.;Blaine Harbor Berth A-11, Blaine, 98230
  • When was it listed? June 1997
  • Category. object
  • Census division. Blaine
  • National Register reference number. 97000551 - 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

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of MV PLOVER (ferry) between 1999 and 2019, burning about 2 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
Smoking1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Recreation and ceremony1
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
12 September 2016Smoking1.5 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBLAINE 20
16 August 2011Other causesunder an acreWashington State Fire Marshal's OfficeBIRCH POINT ROAD
18 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBRIDGE
9 October 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Every fire recorded in Whatcom County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of MV PLOVER (ferry): 8 past producers. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Blain PitDiatomitePast Producer
Bordstrom PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Colacurico PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gilbert Iverson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Loop PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sonny's Excavation PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Whatcom County

Storms near this property

1 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blaine, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2013: 1 debris flow. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 2013Debris FlowBlaine$5,000Heavy rain caused a mudslide near Semiahmoo Bay.

Every storm recorded in Whatcom 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

1 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
Peace Arch0.5 miles1996

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 97000551 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Whatcom CountyAll 74 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.