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Thompson Place
The separately named neighborhood north of Martin Way.
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Map, location & local context
Regional location context
Tanglewilde & Thompson Place · regional overview
This is a regional context map, not a verified pin or boundary for Thompson Place. Use recorded locations below when available; confirm the parcel before relying on a neighborhood name.
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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.
Tanglewilde lies south of Martin Way and Thompson Place north of it in the published planning geography, between central Lacey and the Marvin corridor.
Regional jurisdiction context: Includes unincorporated urban-growth-area territory; verify city or county jurisdiction.
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
- THOMPSON PLACE: 1950–1978 (10 year observations); THOMPSON PLACE DIV 2: 1951 (8 year observations); THOMPSON PLACE DIV 3: 1951–2009 (63 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
- HENSLEY ST NE · STILLWELL ST NE · NE 11TH AVE · NE WARNER ST. 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 (6 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 |
|---|---|---|
| THOMPSON PLACE13 named parcel observations | 1950–197810 year observations · median 1950 | 0.22 acres median7 acreage observations |
| THOMPSON PLACE DIV 28 named parcel observations | 19518 year observations · median 1951 | 0.205 acres median8 acreage observations |
| THOMPSON PLACE DIV 364 named parcel observations | 1951–200963 year observations · median 1954 | 0.22 acres median64 acreage observations |
| THOMPSON PLACE DIV 431 named parcel observations | 1955–199829 year observations · median 1956 | 0.22 acres median28 acreage observations |
| THOMPSON PLACE DIV 570 named parcel observations | 1957–199969 year observations · median 1958 | 0.23 acres median57 acreage observations |
| THOMPSON PLACE DIV 665 named parcel observations | 1969–197565 year observations · median 1969 | 0.18 acres median65 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: community documented. Development dates, association formation and individual home completion are separate facts. Research updated October 10, 2026.
- Lacey comprehensive planning ↗City planning areas and the distinction between city and unincorporated urban-growth-area jurisdiction.
- Thurston County parcel maps ↗Check the actual parcel, city limits and mapped site conditions.
- 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
- 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
- Washington Archives: Thurston historical plat maps ↗657 catalog entries on 33 pages; original images not comprehensively reviewed
- Lacey planning areas, comprehensive plan chapter 2 ↗Eight planning areas; older planning framework, not current subdivision or HOA boundaries
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The useful details
What changes from one home to the next?
This is a named neighborhood within the broader regional guide. Use its city or association map to orient yourself, then confirm the home’s exact parcel and jurisdiction.
What the records show
The county research keeps 6 recorded-name groups separate. “THOMPSON PLACE DIV 5” has 69 county records with a year built from 1957–1999, median 1958; sampled residential lots have a 0.23-acre median (57 observations); “THOMPSON PLACE DIV 6” has 65 county records with a year built from 1969–1975, median 1969; sampled residential lots have a 0.18-acre median (65 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. 4 additional groups appear in the table below.
The sampled county records include HENSLEY ST NE, STILLWELL ST NE, NE 11TH AVE 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?
- 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
Tanglewilde East is another plat records in the broader Tanglewilde & Thompson Place browsing guide.
County parcel records identify Tanglewilde East around NE WYNOOCHEE PL, MAKAH ST NE, HOH ST NE, WYNOOCHEE PL NE. Related record names and divisions remain separate until their original maps and governing documents establish the relationship.
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