Gardiner Peak Lookout

Built in 1953. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.

From the record

“The Gardiner Peak Lookout, on Gardiner Peak in the West Fork District of Bitterroot National Forest, near Darby, Idaho, was built in 1953. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.”
Wikipedia article Gardiner Peak Lookout, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 42 National Register listings published here for Idaho County · listed in 2018 · category: Building · built in 1953.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Gardiner Peak, West Fork District, Bitterroot NF, Darby (MT), 83539
When was it listed? April 2018
Category. building
Also known as. L-4 Fire Lookouts in the USFS Northern Region (Region 1), 1932-1967 MPS
Census division. Elk City
When was it built? 1953
National Register reference number. 100002295 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

58 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Gardiner Peak Lookout between 1992 and 2019, burning about 8,960 acres in total. 56 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	56
Recreation and ceremony	2

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
4 September 2017	Natural	327 acres	Bitterroot National Forest	GARDINER PEAK
3 September 2017	Natural	199 acres	Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests	BRUSHY CREEK
3 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests	ELEVATOR
28 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Bitterroot National Forest	NORTH STAR
22 September 1994	Recreation and ceremony	72 acres	Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests	not named
21 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests	CUB
2 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests	PARABEAR
14 September 1996	Natural	502 acres	Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests	CUB

Every fire recorded in Idaho County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100002295 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Idaho County	All 42 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.