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 · Subdivision
Wilderness
A distinct property-owners association community in the southeast area.
Regional housing context
Mid-century subdivisions, wooded homes, infill and community-specific newer housing.
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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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Olympia School District ↗
Enrollment information and the district’s school-boundary lookup. This is a regional starting point, not a confirmed assignment for Wilderness.
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.
Try the grocery run
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.
Drive your own route
Cain Road · Boulevard Road · Yelm Highway · 18th Avenue · Wiggins Road. Test the connection from your street at your actual travel hours.
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More about Wilderness
The local context, parcel samples and source-specific builder research stay available below.
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 Wilderness. 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 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: 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
- WILDERNESS DIV 10: 1976–1977 (7 year observations); WILDERNESS DIV 13: 1991 (1 year observations); WILDERNESS DIV 14: 1977–1980 (11 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
- SE WILDERNESS DR · SE 45TH AVE · DONAVAN DR SE · FIRWOOD LOOP 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 (20 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 |
|---|---|---|
| WILDERNESS DIV 107 named parcel observations | 1976–19777 year observations · median 1976 | 0.3 acres median7 acreage observations |
| WILDERNESS DIV 10 & 131 named parcel observations | Not established | Not established |
| WILDERNESS DIV 119 named parcel observations | Not established | Not established |
| WILDERNESS DIV 124 named parcel observations | Not established | Not established |
| WILDERNESS DIV 134 named parcel observations | 19911 year observations · median 1991 | Not established |
| WILDERNESS DIV 1413 named parcel observations | 1977–198011 year observations · median 1978 | 0.3 acres median11 acreage observations |
| WILDERNESS DIV 1621 named parcel observations | 1981–200721 year observations · median 1990 | 0.31 acres median21 acreage observations |
| WILDERNESS DIV 221 named parcel observations | 1972–199020 year observations · median 1973 | 0.3 acres median20 acreage observations |
| WILDERNESS DIV 622 named parcel observations | 1973–199017 year observations · median 1974 | 0.34 acres median17 acreage observations |
| WILDERNESS DIV 716 named parcel observations | 1974–197614 year observations · median 1974 | Not established |
| WILDERNESS DIV 823 named parcel observations | 1974–199223 year observations · median 1979 | 0.34 acres median22 acreage observations |
| WILDERNESS DIV 934 named parcel observations | 1975–198031 year observations · median 1976 | 0.26 acres median31 acreage observations |
| WILDERNESS96 named parcel observations | 1972–201761 year observations · median 1974 | 0.35 acres median55 acreage observations |
| WILDERNESS DIV 110 named parcel observations | 1972–197410 year observations · median 1972 | 0.32 acres median10 acreage observations |
| WILDERNESS DIV 154 named parcel observations | Not established | Not established |
| WILDERNESS DIV 15 & 181 named parcel observations | Not established | Not established |
| WILDERNESS DIV 1731 named parcel observations | 1983–199130 year observations · median 1985.5 | 0.295 acres median30 acreage observations |
| WILDERNESS DIV 33 named parcel observations | 1974–19763 year observations · median 1975 | 0.39 acres median3 acreage observations |
| WILDERNESS DIV 47 named parcel observations | 1973–19787 year observations · median 1975 | 0.32 acres median7 acreage observations |
| WILDERNESS DIV 54 named parcel observations | 1980–19874 year observations · median 1980.5 | 0.29 acres median4 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.
- Olympia neighborhood associations ↗Recognized association maps include city and urban-growth-area communities.
- Wilderness property owners ↗Community and governing information.
- County parcel attributes and representative coordinate points ↗All object IDs retrieved; parcel names parsed, not original plat certification
- 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 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 20 recorded-name groups separate. “WILDERNESS” has 61 county records with a year built from 1972–2017, median 1974; sampled residential lots have a 0.35-acre median (55 observations); “WILDERNESS DIV 9” has 31 county records with a year built from 1975–1980, median 1976; sampled residential lots have a 0.26-acre median (31 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. 13 additional groups appear in the table below.
The sampled county records include SE WILDERNESS DR, SE 45TH AVE, DONAVAN 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?
- What year does the assessor record for this house, and which additions or major replacements have permits?
Compare another local name
Briarwood is another plat records in the broader Southeast Olympia · Boulevard & LBA browsing guide.
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.
Read the Briarwood profile →Keep researching this address
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The place profile is a starting point. Confirm the recorded parcel, permits, utility connections, title exceptions and current association documents before relying on a neighborhood-wide description.
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