BlockFrom the record
One of 35 National Register listings published here for Tulare County · listed in 2003 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Mineral King Road Cultural Landscape
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.
The listing
- Address. Mineral King Rd, Sequoia National Park, Mineral King, 93262
- When was it listed? October 2003
- Category. district
- Census division. Woodlake-Three Rivers
- Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
- National Register reference number. 03001063 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Then and now
1904 to 1993The ground this property stands on, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Fires near this property
104 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 104 fires within 5 miles of Mineral King Road Cultural Landscape between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,853 acres in total. 82 started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Natural | 82 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 11 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks | FACULTYFLT |
| 8 September 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks | MINERAL |
| 8 September 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks | TAR GAP |
| 8 September 1992 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks | KOCH |
| 5 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks | HORSE CREEK |
| 5 September 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks | TAR GAP 1 |
| 5 September 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks | TAR GAP 2 |
| 4 September 2001 | Natural | 508 acres | Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks | TAR |
Mines and quarries near this property
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Mineral King Road Cultural Landscape: 3 prospects, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Comanche | Lead, Zinc, Silver, Gold, Cadmium | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Visalia Land and Investment Co. | Uranium | Prospect | ||
| Empire Mine | Lead, Zinc | Prospect | 1875 | |
| White Chief | Lead, Zinc, Silver | Occurrence | Galena, Sphalerite | |
| White Chief Mine | Lead, Zinc | Prospect |
Storms near this property
8 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mineral King, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2009: 2 wildfire, 2 lightning, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 2 deaths and 7 injuries. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2005 | Lightning | Mineral King | 2 killed, 7 hurt | Lightning struck a group of camping Boy Scouts at the 10,700 foot elevation of Sandy Meadow 4 miles west of Mt. Whitney on the John Muir Trail on the 28th. There were 9 individuals struck in a tent that had been erected as shelter from the thunderstorm with one immediate fatality and another critically injured that expired the next day. |
| October 1998 | Wildfire | Mineral King | $348,000 | The Lookout II Fire. Escaped prescribed wildfire in the Sequoia/Kings Canyon National Park, near Mineral King. Total size reached 436 acres with containment on 10/25/98. Cost $348K with no fatalities and no structures lost. |
| August 2003 | Wildfire | Mineral King | $2,000 | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Funnel Cloud | Mineral King | - | A trained spotter reported a funnel cloud. |
| July 2003 | Lightning | Mineral King | - | The Coffeepot Fire was one of five lightning fires in the Tulare County area from thunderstorm activity in the past two weeks in the Tulare County Mountains. The Coffeepot fire damage or cause is not known with no lives or structures reported lost. |
| July 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Mineral King | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Mineral King | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Flash Flood | Mineral King | - | no account filed |
Maps showing this location
15 surveysUnited States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
- 1904 USGS Kaweah quadrangle1:125000
- 1909 USGS Kaweah quadrangle1:125000 - 7 printings
- 1937 USGS Kaweah quadrangle1:125000
- 1948 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Mineral King quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1966 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Mineral King quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Three Rivers quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
- 1988 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:24000
- 1993 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:24000
Listed places nearby
2 within 8 milesOther National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Hockett Meadow Ranger Station | 5.1 miles | 1978 |
 | Redwood Meadow Ranger Station | 6.1 miles | 1978 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 03001063 in Record Group 79. |
| Tulare County | All 35 listed properties in this county. |
Provenance
- Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
- Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
- How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
- Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
- Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
- Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.