Thurston County, Washington (Fire District Mergers)

See also: Thurston County, Washington (Fire District Formations)
District Name 	Status 	Notes
Tumwater Fire District 	Never Formed	A petition for the formation of a Fire District around Tumwater was recieved by the Thurston County Commissioners on August 26th, 1946. After the signatures were verified by the Thurston County Auditor, a hearing was set to be held on October 14th, 1946, to discuss the proposition. During the hearing, the discussion was postponed as the proposed boundaries for the district needed to be reduced. The initial boundaries "would have been a sixteen square mile area, extending four miles south of Olympia city limits and approximately two miles east and west of Old Highway 99".Lack Of Signatures Kills Two Petitions For Fire Protection. The Olympian. Sep. 8, 1946 (Page 1). Newspapers.com. The discussion was postponed several more times until being postponed indefinitley on March 3rd, 1947.
Rochester Fire District 1 	Defunct 	Formed in 1947. Name changed to "Grand Mound-Rochester Fire Department" after Grand Mound Fire District 14 merged into Rochester Fire District 1. Littlerock Fire District 11 consolidated with Grand Mound-Rochester to form West Thurston Regional Fire Authority in 2010.
Yelm Fire District 2 	Defunct 	Formed in 1947. In 2001, Rainier Fire District 4 & Bald Hills Fire District 17 consolidated into Yelm Fire District 2, forming S.E. Thurston Fire & EMS. In 2012, Rainier Fire District 4 merged into Yelm Fire District 2, forming S.E. Thurston Fire Authority.
Lacey Fire District 3 	Active 	Formed in 1949. Served residents within the City of Lacey through a contract with the city from its incorporation in 1966 until the district annexed the City of Lacey in 2010.
Rainier Fire District 4 	Defunct 	Formed in 1952. Consolidated with Yelm Fire District 2 in 2001, forming S.E. Thurston Fire & EMS. Merged with Yelm Fire District 2 in 2012, forming S.E. Thurston Fire Authority.
Black Lake Fire District 5 	Defunct 	Formed in 1952. Merged with McLane Fire District 9 to form McLane Black Lake Fire Department in 2008.
East Olympia Fire District 6 	Active 	Formed in 1953.
North Olympia Fire District 7 	Defunct 	Formed 1953. Merged with South Bay Fire District 8 in 2015.
South Bay Fire District 8 	Active 	Formed in 1953.
McLane Fire District 9 	Defunct 	Formed in 1953. In 2008, Black Lake Fire District 5 consolidated with McLane Fire District 9, forming McLane Black Lake Fire Department. Black Lake merged into McLane in 2018.
Summit Lake Fire District 10 	Defunct 	Formed in 1957. Merged with McLane Fire District 9 in 1976.
Littlerock Fire District 11 	Defunct 	Formed in 1957. Merged with Grand Mound - Rochester Fire Department in 2010 to form West Thurston Regional Fire Authority.
Tenino Fire District 12 	Defunct 	Formed in 1961. Merged with Gibson Valley Fire District to form South Thurston Fire & EMS in 2017.
Griffin Fire District 13 	Active 	Formed 1962.
Grand Mound Fire District 14 	Defunct 	Formed in 1962. Merged with Rochester Fire District 1 in 2002, forming Grand Mound-Rochester Fire Department.
Munn Lake Fire District 15 	Defunct 	Formed in 1966. Contracted service from Tumwater Fire Department from 1967-2016. Annexed to City of Tumwater in 2016.
Gibson Valley Fire District 16 	Defunct 	Formed in 1970. Merged with Tenino Fire District 12 to form South Thurston Fire & EMS in 2017.
Bald Hills Fire District 17 	Active 	Formed in 1975. Formerly part of S.E. Thurston Fire & EMS from 2001 to 2012, where it became an independant fire district again, as Rainier Fire District 4 merged into Yelm Fire District 2, forming S.E. Thurston Fire Authority, which Bald Hills chose not to join.
Department Name 	Status 	Notes
Bucoda Fire Department 	Active 	Formed in 1910.
Olympia Fire Department 	Active 	Formed in 1859.
Tenino Fire Department 	Defunct 	Formed in 1910. Disbanded in the 1980's after the city began contracting service from Tenino Fire District.
Tumwater Fire Department 	Active 	Formed in 1928.
Yelm Fire Department 	Defunct 	Formed in 1924. Eventually replaced by Yelm Fire District 2.
East Olympia Volunteer Fire Department 	Defunct 	Formed in the early 1950's, soon replaced by East Olympia Fire District 6 in 1953.
Lacey Fire Department 	Defunct 	Formed in 1948. Replaced by Lacey Fire District 3 in 1949.(Note: Lacey Fire Department was not ran by the City of Lacey, as it was formed and disbanded before the City of Lacey was incorporated in 1966.)
McLane Volunteer Fire Department 	Defunct 	Formed in 1950. Replaced by McLane Fire District 9 in 1953.
Saint Martin's University Fire Department	Defunct 	Formed in the 1920's-1930's, eventually disbanded after the rapid formation of several fire protection districts across northern Thurston County in the late 1940's and 1950's.
==References==
Category:Thurston County, Washington
Category:Data pages