Chehalis Downtown Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

“The Chehalis Downtown Historic District is located in Chehalis, Washington and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. One of three NRHP districts in the city, including the Hillside Historic District and Pennsylvania Avenue-West Side Historic District, the district represents three separate development periods.”
Wikipedia article Chehalis Downtown Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 33 National Register listings published here for Lewis County · listed in 1997 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by Park, and Front Sts., Washington and Cascade Aves., Chehalis, 98532
When was it listed? November 1997
Category. building
Also known as. Chehalis MPS
Census division. Centralia-Chehalis
National Register reference number. 97001407 - 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

60 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Chehalis Downtown Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 120 acres in total. 2 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
Debris and open burning	21
Recreation and ceremony	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Smoking	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Fireworks	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Natural	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Other causes	2

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 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
8 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
5 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
29 September 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	B & D
14 September 2014	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	BROCKWAY
13 September 2000	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
11 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	PROFFITT RD
1 September 2012	Smoking	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	SPINDLE WOOD

Every fire recorded in Lewis 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 Chehalis Downtown Historic District: 11 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica, Clay. 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
Lund	Silica	Occurrence
Unnamed Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Borrow Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Gillingham Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Bernobich Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Hanaford Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Shorey Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Sunbird Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Lewis County

Storms near this property

1 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chehalis, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2013: 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
September 2013	Lightning	Chehalis	1 hurt	A 59 year old motorcycle driver was injured when he was struck by lightning while driving on Interstate-5.

Every storm recorded in Lewis 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
St. Helens Hotel	under 500 feet	1991
US Post Office-Chehalis Main	0.2 miles	1991
Lewis County Courthouse	0.2 miles	2014
Pennsylvania Avenue-West Side Historic District	0.3 miles	1991
O. K. Palmer House	0.3 miles	1986
Burlington Northern Depot	0.4 miles	1974

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97001407 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lewis County	All 33 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.