Parks & local places
Long Lake Park · Hicks Lake · Pattison Lake. Check the route and public access from the home you’re considering.
Lacey area · Subdivision
Lake Forest
A named lakes-area community; verify the exact division and association.
Regional housing context
Older lake houses, later subdivisions, wooded-lot homes, waterfront and inland properties.
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Which recorded plat, phase and lot does the address belong to?
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Schools to check
School boundaries can differ from city limits, mailing addresses and neighborhood names. Check the specific home before relying on an assignment.
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Look up the home’s schools ↗
Open the county’s Elections and Schools Map or Property Map. Search the address, then confirm the result with the district.
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North Thurston Public Schools ↗
Find Your School: follow the district’s address-search instructions. This is a regional starting point, not a confirmed assignment for Lake Forest.
An ordinary week
Parks, errands & getting around
Regional orientation for Lacey Lakes. Nearby places and services are not promised amenities of this community.
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Compare groceries, pharmacy stops and your other regular errands from the actual driveway. Check store hours and the trip at the time you normally go.
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Map, location & local context
Regional location context
Lacey Lakes · regional overview
This is a regional context map, not a verified pin or boundary for Lake Forest. Use recorded locations below when available; confirm the parcel before relying on a neighborhood name.
Find the recorded locations
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.
Each lake and subdivision has separate plats, shoreline geography and access records.
Regional jurisdiction context: Includes city and county-side parcels; confirm the actual address.
Sampled parcel jurisdictions: Unincorporated Thurston County. This is separate from the regional browsing label.
Housing, subdivisions & builder research
What the records establish
Housing, development history & ownership.
- Construction history
- LAKE FOREST: 1974–1991 (12 year observations); LAKE FOREST DIV 1: 1974–1997 (129 year observations); LAKE FOREST DIV 2: 1983–1999 (84 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
- NOTRE DAME CT SE · CITADEL CT SE · HARVARD DR SE · MARQUETTE ST SE. Sample streets, not a boundary or a matched parcel list.
- Parcel-sample jurisdiction
- Unincorporated Thurston County. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| LAKE FOREST15 named parcel observations | 1974–199112 year observations · median 1987 | 0.32 acres median12 acreage observations |
| LAKE FOREST DIV 1135 named parcel observations | 1974–1997129 year observations · median 1976 | 0.19 acres median129 acreage observations |
| LAKE FOREST DIV 287 named parcel observations | 1983–199984 year observations · median 1987 | 0.31 acres median84 acreage observations |
| LAKE FOREST DIV 3197 named parcel observations | 1988–1993193 year observations · median 1990 | 0.33 acres median193 acreage observations |
| LAKE FOREST DIV 3 OPEN SPACE1 named parcel observations | Not established | Not established |
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: community documented. Development dates, association formation and individual home completion are separate facts. Research updated October 10, 2026.
- Thurston County parcel maps ↗Check the actual parcel, city limits and mapped site conditions.
- Recorded maps and plats ↗Original plats and divisions establish legal subdivision geography.
- Thurston County | 2020 Road Master plat index search-indexed; full PDF exceeds retrieval limit ↗457 extracted subdivision labels; road-management code, not recorded plat number
- Chicago Title Thurston | HOA directory July 2022 workbook and older entries ↗Source-specific claims; does not establish every phase or parcel
- County parcel attributes and representative coordinate points ↗All object IDs retrieved; parcel names parsed, not original plat certification
- County city and county boundary layers ↗Layers 43 and 23; point-in-polygon jurisdiction, not mailing city
Questions to take to a showing
The useful details
What changes from one home to the next?
This is a named subdivision. The recorded plat, phase and parcel explain the legal footprint; the community name alone does not establish a home’s age, builder or shared rights.
What the records show
The county research keeps 5 recorded-name groups separate. “LAKE FOREST DIV 3” has 193 county records with a year built from 1988–1993, median 1990; sampled residential lots have a 0.33-acre median (193 observations); “LAKE FOREST DIV 1” has 129 county records with a year built from 1974–1997, median 1976; sampled residential lots have a 0.19-acre median (129 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. 2 additional groups appear in the table below.
The sampled county records include NOTRE DAME CT SE, CITADEL CT SE, HARVARD DR SE and 1 more street names in Unincorporated Thurston County. 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?
- Are the water view, beach path, dock or road rights recorded for this parcel, or are they simply nearby?
- Who provides water, sewer, permits and road maintenance at this exact address?
Compare another local name
Cottages At Lakepointe is another plat records in the broader Lacey Lakes browsing guide.
County parcel records identify Cottages At Lakepointe around STEAMER DR SE, COMPTON BLVD SE. Related record names and divisions remain separate until their original maps and governing documents establish the relationship.
Read the Cottages At Lakepointe profile →Keep researching this address
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