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One of 32 National Register listings published here for Tuolumne County · listed in 2014 · category: Building · built in 1945, National Park Service rustic.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Lake Vernon Snow Survey Shelter
Built in 1945 (National Park Service rustic). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1896.
The listing
- Address. Terminus of Lake Vernon Tr., Yosemite, 95321
- When was it listed? July 2014
- Category. building
- Also known as. Yosemite National Park MPS
- Census division. Twain Harte-Tuolumne City
- When was it built? 1945
- Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
- National Register reference number. 14000416 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
34 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Lake Vernon Snow Survey Shelter between 1992 and 2020, burning about 10,878 acres in total. 24 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 | 24 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Yosemite National Park | KENDRICK |
| 25 September 2011 | Natural | 1.7 acres | Yosemite National Park | FROG |
| 22 September 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Yosemite National Park | RICHARDSON |
| 21 September 2005 | Natural | 478 acres | Yosemite National Park | LAUREL |
| 21 September 2005 | Natural | 1,058 acres | Yosemite National Park | WAPAMA |
| 14 September 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Yosemite National Park | TILTILL |
| 9 August 2010 | Natural | 965 acres | Yosemite National Park | VERNON |
| 7 August 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Yosemite National Park | WAPAMA |
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.
- 1896 USGS Dardanelles quadrangle1:125000 - 2 printings
- 1898 USGS Dardanelles quadrangle1:125000 - 8 printings
- 1948 USGS Walker Lake quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Tower Peak quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Walker Lake quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
- 1962 USGS Walker Lake quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Walker Lake quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Bridgeport quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Tiltill Mountain quadrangle1:24000
- 2001 USGS Tiltill Mountain quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
Listed places nearby
1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Frog Creek Cabin | 7.4 miles | 2014 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 14000416 in Record Group 79. |
| Tuolumne County | All 32 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.