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Photograph of Summit Lake Ranger Station
Photograph by National Park Service, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Summit Lake Ranger Station

Built in 1926 (National Park Service rustic). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1886.

From the record

“The Summit Lake Ranger Station, also known as the Summit Lake Patrol Cabin, is one of the first three buildings constructed by the National Park Service in Lassen Volcanic National Park, California. Located near the center of the park on the main park road, the cabin was built in 1926.”

Wikipedia article Summit Lake Ranger Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 20 National Register listings published here for Shasta County · listed in 1978 · category: Building · built in 1926, National Park Service rustic, by National Park Service.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · 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. NE of Mineral in Lassen Volcanic National Park, Mineral
  • When was it listed? April 1978
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Central Shasta
  • When was it built? 1926
  • Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
  • Architect. National Park Service
  • National Register reference number. 78000296 - 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.

Fires near this property

88 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Summit Lake Ranger Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 33,701 acres in total. 70 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
Natural70
Smoking5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony3

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
6 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLassen Volcanic National ParkUPPER
5 September 1992Naturalunder an acreLassen Volcanic National ParkBEAR
3 September 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreLassen Volcanic National ParkFAIRFIELD
3 September 1992Naturalunder an acreLassen Volcanic National ParkCHAOS
28 September 1994Naturalunder an acreLassen Volcanic National ParkDEVIL
25 September 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLassen Volcanic National ParkTWIN FIRE
24 September 2001Naturalunder an acreLassen Volcanic National ParkDEVIL'S
21 September 1999Natural3.0 acresLassen Volcanic National ParkBUMPASS

Every fire recorded in Shasta County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Summit Lake Ranger Station: 2 occurrences, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sulfur, Geothermal, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Bumpass HellSulfurOccurrence
Mt. Lassen National ParkGeothermalUnknown
Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Shasta County

Maps showing this location

12 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.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Nobles Emigrant Trail3.4 miles1975
Twin Lakes Fire Tool Cache3.8 miles2016
Lassen Volcanic National Park Highway Historic District3.8 miles2006
Horseshoe Lake Ranger Station5.4 miles1978
Prospect Peak Fire Lookout6.7 miles1978
Loomis Vistor Center, Bldg. 437.6 miles1975

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 78000296 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Shasta CountyAll 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.