Devils Postpile National Monument Ranger Cabin

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.

From the record

“The Devils Postpile National Monument Ranger Cabin, in Devils Postpile National Monument, is located on Minaret Summit Road, about 8 miles (13 km) from the summit. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.”
Wikipedia article Devils Postpile National Monument Ranger Cabin, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Madera County · listed in 2015 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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. Minaret Summit Rd., Mammoth Lakes
When was it listed? December 2015
Category. building
Census division. Oakhurst-North Fork
Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
National Register reference number. 15000859 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

99 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of Devils Postpile National Monument Ranger Cabin between 1992 and 2020, burning about 78 acres in total. 45 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	45
Recreation and ceremony	28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Smoking	7
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 2001	Natural	under an acre	Inyo National Forest	BECK
8 September 2004	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Inyo National Forest	MORAN
7 September 2004	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Inyo National Forest	TWIN LAKES
5 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Inyo National Forest	GUN MOUNT
24 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Inyo National Forest	LAKE GEORGE
21 September 2014	Natural	under an acre	Inyo National Forest	BUTTE
2 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Inyo National Forest	JOAQUIN
19 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Inyo National Forest	not named

Every fire recorded in Madera County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 38 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 38 workings within 5 miles of Devils Postpile National Monument Ranger Cabin: 10 occurrences, 10 prospects, 7 past producers, 7 unknowns. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Silver, Gold, Lead. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Agnew Meadows Deposits	Manganese	Occurrence	Garnet, Rhodochrosite, Rhodonite
Agnew Meadows Deposits	Iron, Manganese	Occurrence	1941
Agnew Meadows Mining Co. Prospect	Lead, Copper, Zinc, Gold	Prospect
Ajax Reef Claims	Silver, Copper, Lead	Prospect
Beasore Claims	Tungsten	Past Producer
Butler, Et Al.	Silver, Lead, Zinc	Unknown
Granmer Group	Zinc, Silver	Unknown
Heriford, Et Al.	Lead, Silver, Zinc	Unknown
Kennedy	Copper, Gold	Occurrence	Chalcopyrite, Pyrite
Mammoth Mine	Gold, Silver, Lead	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Madera County

Maps showing this location

11 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 Devils Postpile quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1957 USGS Mariposa quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1963 USGS Mariposa quadrangle1:250000
1976 USGS Yosemite Valley quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1984 USGS Mammoth Mtn quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Mammoth Mtn. quadrangle1:24000
1992 USGS Mammoth Mtn quadrangle1:24000
1994 USGS Mammoth Mtn quadrangle1:24000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 15000859 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Madera County	All 3 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.