Parks & local places
LBA Park · Karen Fraser Woodland Trail · Chehalis Western Trail connections. Check the route and public access from the home you’re considering.
Olympia area · Plat records
Briarwood
County parcel records identify Briarwood around AMHURST CT SE, WINTERGARDEN DR SE, BRIARWOOD CT SE, ALLEN ST SE. Related record names and divisions remain separate until their original maps and governing documents establish the relationship.
Regional housing context
Mid-century subdivisions, wooded homes, infill and community-specific newer housing.
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Olympia School District ↗
Enrollment information and the district’s school-boundary lookup. This is a regional starting point, not a confirmed assignment for Briarwood.
An ordinary week
Parks, errands & getting around
Regional orientation for Southeast Olympia · Boulevard & LBA. Nearby places and services are not promised amenities of this community.
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Map, location & local context
Regional location context
Southeast Olympia · Boulevard & LBA · regional overview
This is a regional context map, not a verified pin or boundary for Briarwood. Use recorded locations below when available; confirm the parcel before relying on a neighborhood name.
Find the recorded locations
- AMHURST CT SE · sampled street ↗
- WINTERGARDEN DR SE · sampled street ↗
- BRIARWOOD CT SE · sampled street ↗
These searches help you find an address or sampled street; they do not draw a neighborhood boundary. Confirm the result against the source records below.
Streets: OpenStreetMap. Outlines: City of Olympia association data, retrieved September 19, 2026. Association outlines are not city limits or the full extent of every guide.View all neighborhoods →
Where it fits
Location & local context.
The Boulevard/Cain Road/LBA side of southeast Olympia, separate from Ward Lake/Henderson, inner Carlyon/Wildwood and rural East Olympia beyond the urban edge.
Regional jurisdiction context: City and urban-edge parcels can differ. Confirm jurisdiction, utilities and school assignment by address.
Sampled parcel jurisdictions: Olympia. This is separate from the regional browsing label.
Housing, subdivisions & builder research
What the records establish
Housing, development history & ownership.
- Construction history
- BRIARWOOD: 1977–1998 (29 year observations); BRIARWOOD DIV 1: 1986 (1 year observations); BRIARWOOD DIV 2: 1990–2026 (30 year observations). Additional groups appear in the table below. Separate recorded groups, not one combined buildout range.
- Housing & styles
- An architectural style is not inferred from a year-built field. Confirm the actual house and original plans.
- Homebuilder
- Original builder has not been established in the sources reviewed.
- Street examples
- AMHURST CT SE · WINTERGARDEN DR SE · BRIARWOOD CT SE · ALLEN ST SE. Sample streets, not a boundary or a matched parcel list.
- Parcel-sample jurisdiction
- Olympia. This reflects the sampled parcels, not every property in the wider browsing region.
Recorded names & construction-year samples (5 record groups)
October 10, 2026 research snapshot. These are legal-description search groups, not a count of homes or certified plat boundaries. Divisions, phases and similarly named records remain separate. Year-built fields can include later replacement buildings and non-house property types.
| Recorded name | Year-built sample | Residential lot sample |
|---|---|---|
| BRIARWOOD29 named parcel observations | 1977–199829 year observations · median 1980 | 0.26 acres median29 acreage observations |
| BRIARWOOD DIV 11 named parcel observations | 19861 year observations · median 1986 | 0.28 acres median1 acreage observations |
| BRIARWOOD DIV 230 named parcel observations | 1990–202630 year observations · median 1992 | 0.215 acres median30 acreage observations |
| BRIARWOOD DIV 326 named parcel observations | 1997–200325 year observations · median 2000 | 0.24 acres median25 acreage observations |
| BRIARWOOD DIV 432 named parcel observations | 2000–200631 year observations · median 2002 | 0.23 acres median31 acreage observations |
Acreage is the median of positive lot-size observations below 100 acres coded RES in the research, not a measurement of every home lot. Samples can be incomplete or overlap; do not add them to calculate community totals. Confirm the actual parcel, original permit, additions and recorded map before relying on a date or size.
Evidence: parcel records. Development dates, association formation and individual home completion are separate facts. Research updated October 10, 2026.
- County parcel attributes and representative coordinate points ↗All object IDs retrieved; parcel names parsed, not original plat certification
- Washington Archives: Thurston recorded plats and surveys ↗28,929 unique record IDs in 32 uncapped date windows; live catalog 28,930
Questions to take to a showing
The useful details
What changes from one home to the next?
This profile follows a county recorded-name search group. A search label is a useful lead, not a certified plat, phase or association boundary.
What the records show
The county research keeps 5 recorded-name groups separate. “BRIARWOOD DIV 4” has 31 county records with a year built from 2000–2006, median 2002; sampled residential lots have a 0.23-acre median (31 observations); “BRIARWOOD DIV 2” has 30 county records with a year built from 1990–2026, median 1992; sampled residential lots have a 0.215-acre median (30 observations). These assessor samples help compare building eras, but do not establish the first or last home in a subdivision or the permit history of an individual address. 3 additional groups appear in the table below.
The sampled county records include AMHURST CT SE, WINTERGARDEN DR SE, BRIARWOOD CT SE and 1 more street names in Olympia. These are sampled records, not a mapped neighborhood boundary.
Questions to take to a showing
- Which recorded plat, phase and lot does the address belong to?
- Who provides water, sewer, permits and road maintenance at this exact address?
- What year does the assessor record for this house, and which additions or major replacements have permits?
Compare another local name
Canterbury is another subdivision in the broader Southeast Olympia · Boulevard & LBA browsing guide.
A separately documented southeast subdivision.
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