Maloney's General Store

Built in 1893. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

One of 324 National Register listings published here for King County · listed in 1997 · category: Building · built in 1893.

Sources: 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 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 104 Railroad Ave. W, Skykomish, 98288
When was it listed? August 1997
Category. building
Census division. Snoqualmie Valley
When was it built? 1893
National Register reference number. 97001078 - 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

52 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Maloney's General Store between 1992 and 2020, burning about 53 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 2 were 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	20
Natural	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Debris and open burning	2
Other causes	1
Smoking	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
9 September 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest	FOSS RIVER 2
7 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest	BUCKET
28 September 1998	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
2 September 2020	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest	SKYKOMISH
18 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest	LOWE
18 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest	not named
14 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	SKY
11 September 2017	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	ALPINE

Every fire recorded in King County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 81 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 81 workings within 5 miles of Maloney's General Store: 38 unknowns, 16 occurrences, 15 past producers, 12 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Silver, Limestone, General. 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	Recorded
Akishin Claim	Silver, Zinc, Lead, Gold, Copper	Prospect
Baring	Chromium	Unknown
Beckler River Pit	Stone	Past Producer
Black Dike Prospect	Copper, Iron	Occurrence	Chalcopyrite, Magnetite, Pyrite
Gold Mountain Prospect	Antimony, Gold, Silver, Copper	Occurrence	1900
Grand Central	Gold, Antimony	Occurrence	Pyrite, Stibnite
Great Republic	Antimony, Gold, Silver	Occurrence	Vein
Kimball	Gold, Silver, Antimony	Prospect
King and Kinney	Copper, Zinc, Silver, Lead, Gold	Prospect
Lynn Prospect	Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc	Prospect

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

4 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
Great Northern Depot	under 500 feet	1997
Skykomish Historic Commercial District	under 500 feet	2000
Baring Bridge	6.7 miles	2019
Baring Bridge	6.7 miles	2019

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97001078 in Record Group 79.
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.