Tuolumne Meadows High Sierra Camp

Built in 1916. 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: District · built in 1916.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Along north banks of Dana Fork of Tuolumne River, east of Tuolumne Meadows, Yosemite, 95389
When was it listed? July 2014
Category. district
Also known as. Yosemite National Park MPS
Census division. Twain Harte-Tuolumne City
When was it built? 1916
National Register reference number. 14000419 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

46 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Tuolumne Meadows High Sierra Camp between 1992 and 2019, burning about 184 acres in total. 22 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	22
Recreation and ceremony	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Smoking	2
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 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Inyo National Forest	not named
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
6 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Yosemite National Park	RAFFERTY
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

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 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 Tioga Pass quadrangle1:24000
1992 USGS Tioga Pass quadrangle1:24000
1994 USGS Tioga Pass quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Tuolumne Meadows Ranger Stations and Comfort Stations	1.2 miles	1978
Soda Springs Cabin	1.8 miles	1979
Parsons Memorial Lodge	1.9 miles	1979
McCauley Cabin	1.9 miles	1977
Tuolumne Meadows	2.2 miles	1978
Tioga Pass Entrance Station	4.7 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 14000419 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.