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Photograph of John Muir Memorial Shelter
Photograph by Rick McCharles, CC BY 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

John Muir Memorial Shelter

Built in 1930. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1912.

From the record

One of 44 National Register listings published here for Fresno County · listed in 2016 · category: Building · built in 1930, by Henry Higby Gutterson.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Listed as. Muir, John, Memorial Shelter - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. CA 180, Grant Grove Village in Kings Canyon National Park, Grant Cove, 93634
  • When was it listed? August 2016
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Sierra
  • When was it built? 1930
  • Architect. Henry Higby Gutterson
  • National Register reference number. 16000576 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

2 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of John Muir Memorial Shelter between 1999 and 2001, burning under an acre in total. 1 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
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
12 July 2001Naturalunder an acreSequoia & Kings Canyon National ParksLE CONTE
15 October 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreInyo National ForestCHOCOLATE

Every fire recorded in Fresno County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of John Muir Memorial Shelter: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gemstone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unnamed LocationGemstoneOccurrence

Every working recorded in Fresno County

Maps showing this location

12 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 16000576 in Record Group 79.
Fresno CountyAll 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.
  • 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.