Rangers' Club

A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1920 (National Park Service rustic). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.

From the record

“The Rangers' Club is a building in Yosemite Valley in Yosemite National Park that was donated by the independently wealthy first director of the National Park Service, Stephen Tyng Mather. He intended it to be used by the newly hired park rangers who were taking over from the departing army troops.”
Wikipedia article Rangers' Club, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 44 National Register listings published here for Mariposa County · listed in 1987 · category: Building · built in 1920, National Park Service rustic, by Charles K. Sumner · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

Address. Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park, 95389
When was it listed? May 1987
Category. building
Census division. Yosemite Valley
When was it built? 1920
Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
Architect. Charles K. Sumner
National Register reference number. 87001414 - 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

382 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 382 fires within 5 miles of Rangers' Club between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,150 acres in total. 98 started naturally. 8 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 ceremony	144
Natural	98
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	77
Smoking	39
Arson/incendiarism	8
Debris and open burning	7
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Other causes	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 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Yosemite National Park	STOCK TRAIL
9 September 1995	Smoking	under an acre	Yosemite National Park	MALL
9 September 1992	Natural	under an acre	Yosemite National Park	INDIAN
7 September 2015	Natural	415 acres	Yosemite National Park	TENAYA
7 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Yosemite National Park	FALLS
6 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Yosemite National Park	TAFT
6 September 2001	Smoking	under an acre	Yosemite National Park	TERRACE
5 September 2018	Natural	under an acre	Yosemite National Park	TAFT

Every fire recorded in Mariposa 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.

1897 USGS Yosemite quadrangle1:125000
1900 USGS Yosemite quadrangle1:125000
1903 USGS Yosemite quadrangle1:125000 - 2 printings
1909 USGS Yosemite quadrangle1:125000 - 7 printings
1947 USGS Mariposa quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Mariposa quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Yosemite quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1957 USGS Mariposa quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1963 USGS Mariposa quadrangle1:250000
1976 USGS Yosemite Valley quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1990 USGS Half Dome quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1992 USGS Half Dome quadrangle1:24000
1997 USGS Half Dome quadrangle1:24000

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
Yosemite Village Historic District	0.1 miles	1978
Degnan's Restaurant	0.1 miles	2017
Yosemite Valley Chapel	0.5 miles	1973
LeConte Memorial Lodge	0.7 miles	1977
Ahwahnee Hotel	0.7 miles	1977
Camp Curry Historic District	0.9 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87001414 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Mariposa County	All 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.