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One of 44 National Register listings published here for Mariposa County · listed in 2014 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Merced Lake High Sierra Camp
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.
The listing
- Address. Along North bank of Merced River, directly East of Merced Lake, Yosemite, 95389
- When was it listed? July 2014
- Category. district
- Also known as. Yosemite National Park MPS
- Census division. Yosemite Valley
- National Register reference number. 14000407 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
73 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Merced Lake High Sierra Camp between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,854 acres in total. 47 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 | 47 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 20 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Yosemite National Park | PINNACLES |
| 8 September 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Yosemite National Park | SUNRISE |
| 25 September 2001 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Yosemite National Park | DALE |
| 25 September 2001 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Yosemite National Park | DORMAN |
| 25 September 2001 | Natural | 1.5 acres | Yosemite National Park | ECHO 2 |
| 23 September 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Yosemite National Park | MERCED |
| 21 September 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Yosemite National Park | ECHO |
| 2 September 2011 | Natural | 4.6 acres | Yosemite National Park | ADAIR |
Maps showing this location
10 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.
- 1901 USGS Mt. Lyell quadrangle1:125000 - 12 printings
- 1947 USGS Mariposa quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Mariposa quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Merced Peak quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
- 1957 USGS Mariposa quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
- 1963 USGS Mariposa quadrangle1:250000
- 1976 USGS Yosemite Valley quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Merced Peak quadrangle1:24000
- 1992 USGS Merced Peak quadrangle1:24000
- 1997 USGS Merced Peak quadrangle1:24000
Listed places nearby
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Merced Lake Ranger Station | 0.6 miles | 2014 | |
| Sunrise High Sierra Camp | 4.1 miles | 2014 | |
 | Vogelsang High Sierra Camp | 5.1 miles | 2014 |
 | Half Dome Cables and Trail | 6.7 miles | 2012 |
| Half Dome Cables and Trail | 7.0 miles | 2012 |
| Snow Creek Ski Hut | 7.2 miles | 2014 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 14000407 in Record Group 79. |
| Mariposa County | All 44 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.