Tuolumne Meadows Ranger Stations and Comfort Stations

Built in 1924 (rustic architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.

From the record

“The Tuolumne Meadows Ranger Station and Comfort Stations are examples of National Park Service Rustic design in Yosemite National Park. They are within the Tuolumne Meadows Historic District at Tuolumne Meadows.”
Wikipedia article Tuolumne Meadows Ranger Stations and Comfort Stations, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 32 National Register listings published here for Tuolumne County · listed in 1978 · category: Building · built in 1924, rustic architecture, by National Park Service.

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

The listing

Address. SW of Lee Vining in Yosemite National Park, Lee Vining
When was it listed? December 1978
Category. building
Census division. Twain Harte-Tuolumne City
When was it built? 1924
Architectural style. rustic architecture
Architect. National Park Service
National Register reference number. 78000370 - 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

48 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Tuolumne Meadows Ranger Stations and Comfort Stations between 1992 and 2020, burning about 354 acres in total. 24 started naturally. 1 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	24
Recreation and ceremony	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Smoking	2
Arson/incendiarism	1

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
9 September 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Yosemite National Park	DINGLEY
6 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Yosemite National Park	RAFFERTY
4 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Yosemite National Park	JOHNSON
3 September 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Yosemite National Park	GLEN AULIN
24 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Yosemite National Park	POLLY
21 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Yosemite National Park	RAFFERTY
2 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Yosemite National Park	POTHOLE
19 September 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Yosemite National Park	GLEN

Every fire recorded in Tuolumne County

Maps showing this location

9 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.

1901 USGS Mt. Lyell quadrangle1:125000 - 12 printings
1947 USGS Mariposa quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Mariposa quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Tuolumne Meadows quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1957 USGS Mariposa quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1963 USGS Mariposa quadrangle1:250000
1976 USGS Yosemite Valley quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1990 USGS Vogelsang Peak quadrangle1:24000
1994 USGS Vogelsang Peak quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Soda Springs Cabin	0.7 miles	1979
Parsons Memorial Lodge	0.8 miles	1979
McCauley Cabin	0.8 miles	1977
Tuolumne Meadows	1.0 miles	1978
Tuolumne Meadows High Sierra Camp	1.2 miles	2014
Glen Aulin High Sierra Camp	4.2 miles	2014

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78000370 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Tuolumne County	All 32 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.