Sachse Spring Snow Survey Shelter

Built in 1947 (National Park Service rustic). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.

From the record

One of 32 National Register listings published here for Tuolumne County · listed in 2014 · category: Building · built in 1947, National Park Service rustic.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Off of Kibbie Ridge Tr. near Sachse Spring, Yosemite
When was it listed? July 2014
Category. building
Also known as. Yosemite National Park MPS
When was it built? 1947
Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
National Register reference number. 14000418 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

32 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Sachse Spring Snow Survey Shelter between 1993 and 2018, burning about 10,306 acres in total. 20 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	20
Recreation and ceremony	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Debris and open burning	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 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Yosemite National Park	CHAIN
25 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Yosemite National Park	HORSE
20 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	Yosemite National Park	HOOVER
6 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Yosemite National Park	MERCED PASS
6 August 2000	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Yosemite National Park	BUG
4 August 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Yosemite National Park	JOHNSON
3 August 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Sierra National Forest	SNYDER
27 August 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Yosemite National Park	CHAIN LAKES

Every fire recorded in Tuolumne County

Maps showing this location

10 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, 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 Sing Peak quadrangle1:24000
1992 USGS Sing Peak quadrangle1:24000
2004 USGS Sing Peak quadrangle1:24000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 14000418 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.