Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.
—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
68historic places
—earliest paper
1852formed
294,793pop. 2020
7cemeteries
—CW battlefields
At a glance
Summary
The National Register of Historic Places includes 68 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1974. Most listings are in or near Olympia, Rochester, Tenino.
Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.
Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.
County formation
Newberry AHCB
Thurston was formed in 1852 (1852-01-12) from CLARK (Wa.
THURSTON (Wa.) created by Oregon Territory from CLARK (Wa.) and LEWIS (Wa.). THURSTON included the disputed San Juan Islands which were claimed by both the United States and Great Britain from 15 January 1846 to 21 October 1872.
Thurston County population from 1860 to 2020 (Census historical series).
1860
1880
1900
1920
1940
1950
1960
1980
2000
2020
1,507
3,270
9,927
22,366
37,285
44,884
55,049
124,264
207,355
294,793
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.
Cemeteries & historical places
USGS GNIS
7 cemeteries and 2 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.
Cemeteries — 7 of 7 listed
Name
Lat
Lon
Forest Grove Cemetery
46.82567
-122.84941
Grand Mound Cemetery
46.82131
-123.02057
Mount Tabor Cemetery
47.0439
-122.86652
Olympic Memorial Garden Cemetery
46.99721
-122.92188
Ruddell Pioneer Cemetery
47.0093
-122.80774
Saint Martins Abbey Cemetery
47.04378
-122.81475
Woodlawn Cemetery
47.00922
-122.80573
Historical populated places — 2 of 2
Name
Lat
Lon
Bordeaux
46.89482
-123.08014
Marshville
47.05204
-122.91458
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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