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Chelan County, Washington

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47historic places

—earliest paper

1899formed

79,074pop. 2020

10cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 47 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1973. Most listings are in or near Stehekin, Wenatchee, Leavenworth.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Washington is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Chelan titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

38 of 47 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

47 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Black Warrior Mine	Stehekin	Structure	1974
Blewett Arrastra	Cashmere	Structure	1974
Bridge Creek Cabin-Ranger Station	Stehekin	Building	1989
Bridge Creek Shelter	Stehekin	Building	1989
Brown’s First Addition Historic District	Wenatchee	District	2021
Buckner Cabin	Stehekin	Building	1974
Buckner Homestead Historic District	Stehekin	District	1989
Burbank Homestead Waterwheel	Cashmere	Structure	1973
Burke-Hill Apartments	Wenatchee	Building	2021
Chatter Creek Guard Station	Leavenworth	Building	1986
Chelan Butte Lookout	Chelan	Building	1990
Columbia River Bridge	Wenatchee	Structure	1982
Columbia River Bridge at Wenatchee	Wenatchee	Structure	1995
Cottage Avenue Historic District	Cashmere	District	2002
Courtney Cabin	Stehekin	Building	1974
Downtown Wenatchee Historic District	Wenatchee	District	2008
Flick Creek Shelter	Stehekin	Building	1989
Golden West Lodge Historic District	Stehekin	District	1989
High Bridge Ranger Station Historic District	Stehekin	District	1989
High Bridge Shelter	Stehekin	Building	1989
Horan, Michael, House	Wenatchee	Building	1992
Lake Chelan Hydroelectric Power Plant	Chelan	District	1988
Lake Wenatchee Residence No. 1200	Leavenworth	Building	1991
Leavenworth National Fish Hatchery	Leavenworth	District	1998
Leavenworth Ranger Station	Leavenworth	Building	1986
Leavenworth Ski Hill Historic District	Leavenworth	District	2013
Lord, Richard Hinton, House	Chelan	Building	1999
Lucas Homestead	Chelan	Building	1978
Lucerne Guard Station	Lucerne	Building	1991
Miller, George, House	Stehekin	Building	1989
Penstock Bridge	Leavenworth	Structure	1982
Purple Point-Stehekin Ranger Station House	Stehekin	Building	1989
Rock Island Railroad Bridge	Rock Island	Structure	1975
Ruby Theater	Chelan	Building	1991
St. Andrews Episcopal Church	Chelan	Building	1992
Stehekin School	Stehekin	Building	1974
Steliko Ranger Station	Ardenvoir	Building	1991
Stevens Pass Guard Station	Skykomish	Building	1991
Sugarloaf Peak Lookout	Leavenworth	Building	1990
Sulphide-Frisco Cabin	Stehekin	Site	1989
Tyee Mountain Lookout	Entait	Building	1990
U.S. Post Office and Annex	Wenatchee	Building	1977
Wells House	Wenatchee	Building	1973
Wenatchee Carnegie Library	Wenatchee	Building	1982
Wenatchee Fire Station #1	Wenatchee	Building	2004
Wenatchee Flat Site	Wenatchee	Site	1973
West Monitor Bridge	Monitor	Structure	1982

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Chelan was formed in 1899 (1899-03-13) from Kittitas, Okanogan.

CHELAN created from KITTITAS and OKANOGAN.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Chelan County population from 1900 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
3,931	20,906	34,412	39,301	40,744	45,061	66,616	79,074

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

Site	Type	Dist.
Lake Chelan National Recreation Area	Park unit	54.7 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

10 cemeteries and 3 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 10 of 10 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Cashmere Cemetery	47.51863	-120.48694
Chelan Fraternal Cemetery	47.8499	-120.0088
Entiat Cemetery	47.67543	-120.30589
Mountain View Cemetery	47.55484	-120.67812
Old Leavenworth North Road Cemetery	47.60904	-120.64568
Peshastin Cemetery	47.58294	-120.60847
Riverview Cemetery	47.83358	-119.99628
Stemilt Hill Cemetery	47.3332	-120.26111
Sunnyslope Cemetery	47.47918	-120.34638
Wenatchee Cemetery	47.4506	-120.3476

Historical populated places — 3 of 3

Name	Lat	Lon
Blewett	47.42318	-120.65925
Entiat	47.66291	-120.22369
Holden	48.19933	-120.77408

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

HMdb link

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