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Skidoo

Built in 1906. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1908.

From the record

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Inyo County · listed in 1974 · category: District · built in 1906.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • Address. Death Valley National Monument, Wildrose District, Death Valley, 92328
  • When was it listed? April 1974
  • Category. district
  • Census division. Death Valley
  • When was it built? 1906
  • National Register reference number. 74000349 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Then and now

1908 to 1986

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Skidoo, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet covering Skidoo, surveyed 1908

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Skidoo: 15 past producers, 3 occurrences, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Lead, Silver, Gold, Silver. 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
Death ValleyGold, CopperOccurrence
Del NorteGold, Copper, SilverPast Producer
Del Norte GroupGold, Copper, LeadPast ProducerGold
Granite ContactGold, Silver, Lead, CopperPast ProducerGold
Granite ContractLead, Copper, Gold, SilverOccurrence
Old MillLead, Gold, Silver, CopperOccurrence
Panamint Tungsten DepositsTungstenProspect
Treasure Hill MineGold, Lead, SilverPast Producer
Skidoo MineGold, Silver, LeadPast ProducerGold
Sunset MineGold, SilverPast ProducerGold

Every working recorded in Inyo County

Maps showing this location

13 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 74000349 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Inyo CountyAll 9 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.
  • 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.