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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
Vogelsang High Sierra Camp
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.
The listing
- Address. Along Fletcher Creek, immediately southwest of Fletcher 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. 14000413 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
33 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Vogelsang High Sierra Camp between 1992 and 2018, burning about 545 acres in total. 16 started naturally. None 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 | 16 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 14 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Other causes | 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 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Yosemite National Park | POTTERS PT |
| 8 September 2001 | Natural | 14 acres | Yosemite National Park | LYELL |
| 7 September 1997 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Yosemite National Park | IRELAND |
| 4 September 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Yosemite National Park | JOHNSON |
| 26 September 1993 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Yosemite National Park | IRELAND |
| 21 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Yosemite National Park | RAFFERTY |
| 17 September 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Yosemite National Park | SUNRISE |
| 16 September 1992 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Yosemite National Park | NELSON |
Maps showing this location
9 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
- 1956 USGS Tuolumne Meadows quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Mariposa quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
- 1963 USGS Mariposa quadrangle1:250000
- 1976 USGS Yosemite Valley quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Vogelsang Peak quadrangle1:24000
- 1994 USGS Vogelsang Peak quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
Listed places nearby
3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunrise High Sierra Camp | 4.7 miles | 2014 | |
| Merced Lake Ranger Station | 4.8 miles | 2014 | |
| Merced Lake High Sierra Camp | 5.1 miles | 2014 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 14000413 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.