BlockBefore
Photograph of Gamlin Cabin
Photograph by Dsdugan, CC0 1.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Gamlin Cabin

Built in 1872. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“Gamlin's Cabin is a historic cabin in General Grant Grove in Kings Canyon National Park. It can be passed on a loop trail to General Grant, being about 200 ft (61 m) northwest of the tree itself.”

Wikipedia article Gamlin Cabin, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 44 National Register listings published here for Fresno County · listed in 1977 · category: Building · built in 1872.

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. NW of Wilsonia, Wilsonia, 93641
  • When was it listed? March 1977
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Sierra
  • When was it built? 1872
  • National Register reference number. 77000123 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

160 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 160 fires within 5 miles of Gamlin Cabin between 1992 and 2020, burning about 294 acres in total. 27 started naturally. 6 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
Recreation and ceremony40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Natural27
Debris and open burning23
Equipment and vehicle use18
Arson/incendiarism6
Smoking6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Other causes2
Fireworks1

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
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSequoia & Kings Canyon National ParksSWALE
4 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSequoia National ForestKV
3 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSequoia & Kings Canyon National ParksCONE
3 September 1998Naturalunder an acreSequoia National ForestLOG
28 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreSequoia & Kings Canyon National ParksLION
28 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSequoia National ForestTODD
24 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSequoia National ForestASPEN
24 September 1994Naturalunder an acreSequoia National ForestVALLEY

Every fire recorded in Fresno County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Gamlin Cabin: 4 prospects, 2 unknowns, 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Tungsten, Silver, Copper, Copper, 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
Gray EagleGold, Copper, SilverProspect
Black PrinceGold, Silver, CopperProspect
DomingoGold, Silver, CopperUnknown
Indian Gap No 1TungstenOccurrence
Mill Creek TungstenTungstenProspect
Scheelite Queen & 3 ClaimsTungstenUnknown
Blue BirdGoldProspect
Way-UpGoldPast Producer

Every working recorded in Fresno County

Maps showing this location

13 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 77000123 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.