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Photograph of Crater Lake Lodge
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Crater Lake Lodge

Built in 1915 (rustic architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.

From the record

One of 28 National Register listings published here for Klamath County · listed in 1981 · category: Building · built in 1915, rustic architecture.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Crater Lake National Park, Klamath Falls
  • When was it listed? May 1981
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Crescent Lake
  • When was it built? 1915
  • Architectural style. rustic architecture
  • National Register reference number. 81000096 - 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

178 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 178 fires within 5 miles of Crater Lake Lodge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,344 acres in total. 110 started naturally. 2 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
Natural110
Recreation and ceremony49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Smoking6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism2
Debris and open burning1
Other causes1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCrater Lake National ParkLOOP
6 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCrater Lake National ParkPINNACLES
6 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCrater Lake National ParkTSUGA
5 September 2019Naturalunder an acreCrater Lake National ParkHILLMAN
5 September 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCrater Lake National ParkANNIE
5 September 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCrater Lake National ParkDUTTON
4 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCrater Lake National ParkRIM
4 September 1997Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCrater Lake National ParkWALRUS

Every fire recorded in Klamath County

Storms near this property

14 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Klamath Falls, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 4 hail, 3 flood, 3 wildfire, 3 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2008Thunderstorm WindKlamath Falls$10,000A member of the public reported that part of a barn roof was blown away, a firmly anchored car canopy was toppled, and a boat was damaged by strong gusts associated with a thunderstorm. No warning was issued for this storm.
August 2020HailKlamath Falls-A member of the public sent a picture of quarter sized hail.
May 2006HailKlamath Falls-An NWS employee driving through the area reported .5 to .75 inch hail covering the ground.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindKlamath Falls-Klamath County dispatch reported multiple trees down on power lines and roads from Klamath Falls east and north to Chiloquin.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindKlamath Falls-No wind report of this magnitude was received, but one report came close.
August 1999WildfireKlamath Falls-See below.
July 1999WildfireKlamath Falls-See below.
July 1999WildfireKlamath Falls-The Klamath Falls Herald and News reported 3 more lightning ignited fires. See below.
August 1999FloodKlamath Falls-See below.
August 1999FloodKlamath Falls-See below.
May 1995HailKlamath Falls-A small tornado, one and one-half inch hail, and heavy rain accompanied strong thunderstorms in the Klamath Falls area. The tornado ripped the roof off of a Klamath Falls School District bus barn. No one was injured. Hail from the same storm did some minor crop damage to local sugar beet fields.
May 1998Flash FloodKlamath Falls-no account filed
May 1998HailKlamath Falls-no account filed
June 1996FloodKlamath Falls-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Klamath 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Rim Village Historic District0.1 miles1997
Sinnott Memorial Building No. 670.2 miles1988
Comfort Station No. 680.3 miles1988
Comfort Station No. 720.4 miles1988
Watchman Lookout Station No. 680.4 miles1988
Crater Lake Superintendent's Residence0.7 miles1987

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 81000096 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Klamath CountyAll 28 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.
  • 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.