Cabin Lake Guard Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The Cabin Lake Guard Station is a Forest Service compound consisting of six simple rustic buildings located in the Deschutes National Forest in central Oregon. It was originally built as a district ranger station for the Fort Rock Ranger District.”
Wikipedia article Cabin Lake Guard Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Lake County · listed in 1986 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 7 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Deschutes National Forest, Bend
When was it listed? April 1986
Category. building
Also known as. Depression-Era Buildings Oregon and Washington TR
Census division. Silver Lake-Fort Rock
National Register reference number. 86000827 - 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

86 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Cabin Lake Guard Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 122 acres in total. 76 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	76
Recreation and ceremony	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Debris and open burning	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
24 September 2008	Natural	1.3 acres	Deschutes National Forest	1059
24 September 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Deschutes National Forest	1683
16 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Deschutes National Forest	969
11 September 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Deschutes National Forest	not named
10 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Deschutes National Forest	1091
9 August 2001	Natural	under an acre	Deschutes National Forest	1065
9 August 2001	Natural	under an acre	Deschutes National Forest	1060
9 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Deschutes National Forest	1067

Every fire recorded in Lake 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 86000827 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lake County	All 14 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.