Parks & local places
Tumwater Hill Park · Overlook Point Park · Jim Brown Park. Check the route and public access from the home you’re considering.
Tumwater area · Subdivision
Somerset Hill
A separate development within the city’s Tumwater Hill planning context.
Regional housing context
Older individual houses, newer subdivisions, hillside homes and attached housing.
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Schools to check
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Tumwater School District ↗
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Parks, errands & getting around
Regional orientation for Tumwater Hill. Nearby places and services are not promised amenities of this community.
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More about Somerset Hill
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Map, location & local context
Regional location context
Tumwater Hill · regional overview
This is a regional context map, not a verified pin or boundary for Somerset Hill. Use recorded locations below when available; confirm the parcel before relying on a neighborhood name.
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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 city’s Tumwater Hill planning neighborhood. Development and housing change across the hill.
Regional jurisdiction context: Tumwater. This region is not part of Olympia.
Sampled parcel jurisdictions: Tumwater. This is separate from the regional browsing label.
Housing, subdivisions & builder research
What the records establish
Housing, development history & ownership.
- Construction history
- 1981–2010 in 97 county year-built observations; median 1986. This is a recorded-building sample, not a complete original buildout chronology.
- Residential lot sample
- 0.23 acres median across 68 residential observations. Individual lots vary; this is not a subdivision-wide minimum or maximum.
- 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
- SW THORPE DR. Sample streets, not a boundary or a matched parcel list.
- Parcel-sample jurisdiction
- Tumwater. This reflects the sampled parcels, not every property in the wider browsing region.
Recorded names & construction-year samples (1 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 |
|---|---|---|
| SOMERSET HILL97 named parcel observations | 1981–201097 year observations · median 1986 | 0.23 acres median68 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: planning record. Development dates, association formation and individual home completion are separate facts. Research updated October 10, 2026.
- Tumwater neighborhood appendix ↗City planning neighborhoods and smaller development names; historical plans are not current parcel determinations.
- Recorded maps and plats ↗Original plats and divisions establish legal subdivision geography.
- 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
- 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 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
“SOMERSET HILL” has 97 county records with a year built from 1981–2010, median 1986; sampled residential lots have a 0.23-acre median (68 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.
The sampled county records include SW THORPE DR in Tumwater. These are sampled records, not a mapped neighborhood boundary.
Questions to take to a showing
- What year does the assessor record for this house, and which additions or major replacements have permits?
Compare another local name
Highlands At Somerset Hill is another plat records in the broader Tumwater Hill browsing guide.
A Tumwater Hill detached-home development. The county parcel sample has 117 residential year-built values from 2007–2016 (median 2008) and a 0.16-acre median lot; the original builder history is not established by the sources reviewed.
Read the Highlands At Somerset Hill profile →Keep researching this address
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