Seattle Municipal Light and Power Plant

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

“Seattle Municipal Light and Power Plant, also known as Cedar Falls Historic District, is a public hydroelectric plant near North Bend, Washington operated by Seattle City Light. The plant on the Cedar River was the first publicly-owned electrical generating plant for Seattle and one of the earliest in the country for a municipality of its size.”
Wikipedia article Seattle Municipal Light and Power Plant, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 324 National Register listings published here for King County · listed in 1997 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. 20030 Cedar Falls Rd. SE, North Bend, 98022
When was it listed? September 1997
Category. district
Census division. Enumclaw Plateau
National Register reference number. 97001077 - 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

9 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Seattle Municipal Light and Power Plant between 1998 and 2020, burning about 2 acres in total. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony	6
Natural	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
8 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
29 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest	MATRESS
11 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
26 August 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest	TINK
17 August 2008	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	WASHINGTON MONUMENT
12 August 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	MIDDLE FORK
10 August 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	TALYOR CREEK
22 July 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	LITTLE SI CAMPSITE

Every fire recorded in King County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Seattle Municipal Light and Power Plant: 11 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold. 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
Della Jane	Gold	Unknown
Brister Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
City of Seattle Road 10 Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
City of Seattle Road 50 Main Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
David Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Ragner Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Scott Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in King 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
Camp North Bend	4.0 miles	1993
Si View Park	5.0 miles	2015
North Bend Ranger Station	5.0 miles	1991
Selleck Historic District	5.4 miles	1989
McGrath Cafe and Hotel-The McGrath	5.4 miles	2002
Norman Bridge	6.8 miles	1994

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97001077 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
King County	All 324 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.