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Hockett Meadow Ranger Station
Built in 1934 (National Park Service rustic). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.
From the record
“The Hockett Meadow Ranger Station was built in Sequoia National Park in 1934 by the Civilian Conservation Corps. The National Park Service Rustic building is a three-room log cabin in the extreme southern end of the park, near Mineral King.”
Wikipedia article Hockett Meadow Ranger Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 35 National Register listings published here for Tulare County · listed in 1978 · category: Building · built in 1934, National Park Service rustic, by Civilian Conservation Corps, National Park Service.
Architect. Civilian Conservation Corps, National Park Service
National Register reference number.78000369- 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
1904 to 1993
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19041993
Fires near this property
89 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Hockett Meadow Ranger Station
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,457 acres in total. 74 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
Natural
74
Recreation and ceremony
13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1
Equipment and vehicle use
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
5 workings within 5 miles of Hockett Meadow Ranger Station: 3 prospects, 2 occurrences.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Lead, Zinc, Silver, Lead, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Silver City, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1997 and 2001: 1 flash flood, 1 wildfire.
No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
The flash flood resulted from an estimated 2 inches of rain that fell within a 45 minute time period over the small watershed comprising Silver Creek at Silver City, Tulare County, about 40 miles ENE of Visalia. Water washed over Mineral King Road at the 6900 foot elevation but only minor road erosion occurred.
The Tar Fire was ignited by lightning on September 4th near Atwell Grove. The fire burned 505 acres and was managed as a resource benefit throughout the remainder of the month of September. There were no fatalities, injuries, or structures lost.
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.
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.
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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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