Krassel Ranger Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“The Krassel Ranger Station, near Yellow Pine, Idaho, was built in 1937. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.”
Wikipedia article Krassel Ranger Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 25 National Register listings published here for Valley County · listed in 1992 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Along S Fork Salmon R., 11 mi. W of Yellowpine, Payette NF, Yellowpine
When was it listed? November 1992
Category. district
Census division. McCall
Architect. architects of the United States Forest Service
National Register reference number. 92000688 - 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

77 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Krassel Ranger Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,312 acres in total. 74 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	74
Recreation and ceremony	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
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
7 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Payette National Forest	BUCKHORN RIDGE
7 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Payette National Forest	INDIAN POINT
6 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Payette National Forest	SIX MILE
6 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Payette National Forest	FITSUM
5 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Payette National Forest	DAY OFF
3 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Payette National Forest	WINDY
25 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Payette National Forest	LILY
9 August 2006	Natural	5.0 acres	Payette National Forest	INDIAN RIDGE

Every fire recorded in Valley County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Krassel Ranger Station: 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	North Lime Creek	Gold, Copper, Silver	Past Producer
	Krassel	Gold	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Valley 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 92000688 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Valley County	All 25 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.