Clackamas Lake Ranger Station Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.

From the record

“The Clackamas Lake Ranger Station Historic District is a Forest Service compound consisting of eleven historic buildings located in the Mount Hood National Forest in the Cascade Mountains of northern Oregon. It was originally built as a district ranger station for the Clackamas Lake Ranger District.”
Wikipedia article Clackamas Lake Ranger Station Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 93 National Register listings published here for Clackamas County · listed in 1981 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. S of Government Camp on Skyline Rd., Government Camp
When was it listed? April 1981
Category. district
Also known as. Depression-Era Buildings TR (AD); Depression-Era Buildings Oregon and Washington TR
Census division. Estacada
National Register reference number. 81000477 - 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

220 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 220 fires within 5 miles of Clackamas Lake Ranger Station Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 135 acres in total. 32 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
Recreation and ceremony	133
Natural	32
Smoking	23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	19
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Debris and open burning	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Fireworks	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 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Mt. Hood National Forest	786
9 September 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Mt. Hood National Forest	474
9 September 1998	Smoking	under an acre	Mt. Hood National Forest	OAK FORK
6 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Mt. Hood National Forest	COOPER
5 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Mt. Hood National Forest	STUMP
5 September 2004	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Mt. Hood National Forest	COLD
4 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Warm Springs Agency	ABBOT
4 September 2003	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Mt. Hood National Forest	CREST

Every fire recorded in Clackamas County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Clackamas Lake Ranger Station Historic District: 14 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
U S Forest Service 079	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
U S Forest Service 080	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
U S Forest Service 081	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
U S Forest Service 087	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
U S Forest Service 088	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
U S Forest Service 089	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
U S Forest Service 79	Stone	Past Producer
U S Forest Service 80	Stone	Past Producer
U S Forest Service 81	Stone	Past Producer
U S Forest Service 87	Stone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Clackamas County

Storms near this property

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Government Camp, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2013: 3 hail, 1 flood. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
January 2011	Flood	Government Camp	$9,000,000	Oregon Department of Transportation reported approximately nine million dollars in damage to roads during the January 15 - 16 winter storm. The heaviest damages to roads were in the Welches, Zigzag, and Lolo Pass area of Clackamas County.
August 2013	Hail	Government Camp	-	Heavy rain and hail caused debris to cover part of the access road between Government Camp and the Timberline Lodge. The hail size was estimated.
August 2013	Hail	Government Camp	-	A thunderstorm produced 1.5 inch diameter hail on Highway 26 around 3 miles west of Government Camp.
June 2009	Hail	Government Camp	-	A park ranger on the Sisi Butte lookout tower reported heavy rain accompanied by hail of various sizes, the largest estimated to be 3/4 of an inch.

Every storm recorded in Clackamas 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 81000477 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clackamas County	All 93 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.
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.