Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.
From the record
“Gale Cabin, in a development near Lake Tahoe at 726 Cedar St. in Zephyr Cove, Nevada, is a historic building built in 1940. Also known as Good Medicine Cabin, it is an example of Rustic architecture.”
Wikipedia article Lena N. Gale Cabin, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 24 National Register listings published here for Douglas County · listed in 2001 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.01000586- 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
236 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 236 fires within 5 miles of Lena N. Gale Cabin
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 749 acres in total. 44 started naturally. 26 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
70
Recreation and ceremony
52
Natural
44
Arson/incendiarism
26
Smoking
23
Misuse of fire by a minor
9
Equipment and vehicle use
3
Fireworks
3
Other causes
2
Debris and open burning
2
Power generation/transmission/distribution
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
9 September 2020
Arson/incendiarism
under an acre
Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit
HOLLY
9 September 2009
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
5 workings within 5 miles of Lena N. Gale Cabin: 2 occurrences, 2 prospects, 1 past producer.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium, Copper, Quartz. 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
Zephyr Cove, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2022: 1 tornado, 1 heavy rain.
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.
Mesonet stations SKYN2-Skyland (2.0 mi NNE of Zephyr Cove, NV) and FW9917 (in Glenbrook, NV) reported heavy rainfall amounts of 0.54 and 0.63 inches respectively.
A citizen reported a confirmed tornado/waterspout that formed two brief spin-ups on Lake Tahoe near Cave Rock, Nevada. The position of the tornado was estimated based on pictures and terrain features. The tornado was determined to be an EF-0 as no damage was reported. This tornado was non-supercellular in nature.
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.
Listed places nearby
5 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.
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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