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One of 20 National Register listings published here for Shasta County · listed in 2016 · category: Building · built in 1935, National Park Service rustic.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Twin Lakes Fire Tool Cache
Built in 1935 (National Park Service rustic). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1886.
The listing
- Address. Lassen Volcanic National Park, Mineral
- When was it listed? October 2016
- Category. building
- Also known as. Lassen Volcanic National Park MPS
- Census division. Central Shasta
- When was it built? 1935
- Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
- National Register reference number. 16000745 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
89 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Twin Lakes Fire Tool Cache between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,921 acres in total. 74 started naturally. 3 were 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 | 74 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2017 | Natural | under an acre | Lassen Volcanic National Park | BUTTE |
| 6 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Lassen Volcanic National Park | UPPER |
| 5 September 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Lassen Volcanic National Park | PROSPECT |
| 5 September 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Lassen Volcanic National Park | PEAK |
| 5 September 1992 | Natural | under an acre | Lassen Volcanic National Park | BEAR |
| 3 September 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Lassen Volcanic National Park | FAIRFIELD |
| 25 September 2017 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Lassen Volcanic National Park | TWIN FIRE |
| 2 September 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Lassen Volcanic National Park | JAKEY |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Twin Lakes Fire Tool Cache: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cinder Cones | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence |
Maps showing this location
14 surveysUnited 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.
- 1886 USGS Lassen Peak quadrangle1:250000
- 1892 USGS Lassen Peak quadrangle1:250000
- 1894 USGS Lassen Peak quadrangle1:250000 - 8 printings
- 1939 USGS Halls Flat quadrangle1:125000 - 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Westwood quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Prospect Peak quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Westwood quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Westwood quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Susanville quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1968 USGS Susanville quadrangle1:250000
- 1975 USGS Prospect Peak SE quadrangle1:24000
- 1976 USGS Burney quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Prospect Peak quadrangle1:24000
- 1995 USGS Prospect Peak quadrangle1:24000
Listed places nearby
5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Horseshoe Lake Ranger Station | 3.2 miles | 1978 |
 | Summit Lake Ranger Station | 3.8 miles | 1978 |
| Prospect Peak Fire Lookout | 4.2 miles | 1978 | |
 | Nobles Emigrant Trail | 4.4 miles | 1975 |
 | Lassen Volcanic National Park Highway Historic District | 7.5 miles | 2006 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 16000745 in Record Group 79. |
| Shasta County | All 20 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.