Parks & local places
Grass Lake Nature Park is one public West Olympia option to compare. Use its marked public entrances; a wooded path near Walnut Loop is not automatically public or an HOA benefit.
Olympia area · Subdivision
Walnut Park
Walnut Park is an established West Olympia subdivision on Walnut Loop NW, with a late-1980s to early-1990s housing sample and its own recognized homeowners association.
Homes you’ll find
Detached-home subdivision; the 54 residential lots sampled have a 0.23-acre median.
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Schools to check
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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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Olympia School District ↗
Enrollment information and the district’s school-boundary lookup. This is a regional starting point, not a confirmed assignment for Walnut Park.
An ordinary week
Parks, errands & getting around
Regional orientation for West Olympia. Nearby places and services are not promised amenities of this community.
Try the grocery run
Test your grocery and work routes from Walnut Loop, including the connection to the wider west-side street network. Compare the trip at the hours you actually travel.
Drive your own route
Walnut Loop NW. Test the connections from the actual driveway at your normal travel hours. Regional proximity does not guarantee a quick commute.
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More about Walnut Park
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Map, location & local context
Regional location context
West Olympia · regional overview
This is a regional context map, not a verified pin or boundary for Walnut Park. 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.
The WALNUT PARK plat sample centers on Walnut Loop NW. It is distinct from Walnut Grove and from any nearby wooded parcel informally described as a park.
Regional jurisdiction context: City and urban-edge parcels can differ. Confirm jurisdiction, utilities and school assignment by address.
Housing, subdivisions & builder research
What the records establish
Housing, development history & ownership.
- Construction history
- County residential sample: 54 year-built values, 1988–1992, median 1989. This is assessor context, not a certified buildout history.
- Residential lot sample
- 0.23 acres median across 54 residential observations. Individual lots vary; this is not a subdivision-wide minimum or maximum.
- Housing & styles
- Detached-home subdivision; the 54 residential lots sampled have a 0.23-acre median. Individual size, layout and usable yard vary.
- Homebuilder
- Not established in the primary sources reviewed. Original permits and lot-specific construction records are needed before attributing a builder.
- Ownership details
- Recognized homeowners association. Verify the home’s membership, current dues, budget, reserves, insurance, rules and shared-maintenance obligations from current documents.
- Location & setting
- The WALNUT PARK plat sample centers on Walnut Loop NW. It is distinct from Walnut Grove and from any nearby wooded parcel informally described as a park.
- Street examples
- Walnut Loop NW. Sample streets, not a boundary or a matched parcel list.
Other builders may also have contributed; not all home and phase records have been reconciled. The documented attribution applies only to the community, offering or phase identified above.
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 |
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| WALNUT PARK55 named parcel observations | 1988–199254 year observations · median 1989 | 0.23 acres median54 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.
- City of Olympia · June 2026 association roster ↗Recognized association identity; recognition does not establish a legal plat boundary or school assignment.
- Thurston County parcel GIS · exact plat sample ↗Reviewed October 15, 2026. Exact SD_NAME filter, deduplicated by parcel number; residential-only year and lot medians. No owner data used.
- Grass Lake Nature Park · City of Olympia ↗Public park access and trails in the wider west-side area; not an HOA amenity.
The place behind the name
The WALNUT PARK plat sample centers on Walnut Loop NW. It is distinct from Walnut Grove and from any nearby wooded parcel informally described as a park.
Parks, open space and everyday routes
Grass Lake Nature Park is one public West Olympia option to compare. Use its marked public entrances; a wooded path near Walnut Loop is not automatically public or an HOA benefit. Test your grocery and work routes from Walnut Loop, including the connection to the wider west-side street network. Compare the trip at the hours you actually travel.
What to compare at a showing
The sampled lots have a larger median than Kaiser Place, but frontage, usable yard and maintenance vary. Check trees, drainage and system-replacement records at the actual home.
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
“WALNUT PARK” has 54 county records with a year built from 1988–1992, median 1989; sampled residential lots have a 0.23-acre median (54 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 Walnut Loop NW. These are sampled records, not a mapped neighborhood boundary.
Questions to take to a showing
- Who provides water, sewer, permits and road maintenance at this exact address?
- What do the current governing documents, budget, dues and reserve records require?
- What year does the assessor record for this house, and which additions or major replacements have permits?
Compare another local name
Evergreen Park is another plat records in the broader West Olympia browsing guide.
County parcel records identify Evergreen Park around EVERGREEN PARK LN SW. Related record names and divisions remain separate until their original maps and governing documents establish the relationship.
Read the Evergreen Park profile →Keep researching this address
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