Photograph of Munson Valley Historic District — Photograph by inkknife_2000 (7.5 million views +), CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Munson Valley Historic District (Boundary Decrease)

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

“Munson Valley Historic District is the headquarters and main support area for Crater Lake National Park in southern Oregon. The National Park Service chose Munson Valley for the park headquarters because of its central location within the park.”
Wikipedia article Munson Valley Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 28 National Register listings published here for Klamath County · listed in 1997 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Munson Valley Rd., Crater Lake National Park, Crater Lake, 97604
When was it listed? September 1997
Category. district
Also known as. Crater Lake National Park MRA
Census division. Crescent Lake
Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
Architect. National Park Service
National Register reference number. 97001154 - 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

173 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 173 fires within 5 miles of Munson Valley Historic District (Boundary Decrease) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,357 acres in total. 104 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
Natural	104
Recreation and ceremony	50
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Smoking	6
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Debris and open burning	1
Other causes	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	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Crater Lake National Park	LOOP
6 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Crater Lake National Park	PINNACLES
6 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Crater Lake National Park	TSUGA
5 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Crater Lake National Park	HILLMAN
5 September 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Crater Lake National Park	ANNIE
5 September 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Crater Lake National Park	DUTTON
4 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Crater Lake National Park	RIM
4 September 1997	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Crater Lake National Park	WALRUS

Every fire 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Munson Valley Historic District	0.1 miles	1988
Crater Lake Superintendent's Residence	0.3 miles	1987
Crater Lake Lodge	1.0 miles	1981
Rim Village Historic District	1.1 miles	1997
Sinnott Memorial Building No. 67	1.1 miles	1988
Comfort Station No. 68	1.2 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97001154 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Klamath County	All 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.