Built in 1950. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.
From the record
“Gaffney's Lake Wilderness Lodge is a building on Lake Wilderness in Maple Valley, Washington. The lodge was built in 1950 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.”
Wikipedia article Gaffney's Lake Wilderness Lodge, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 324 National Register listings published here for King County · listed in 2003 · category: Building · built in 1950.
National Register reference number.03000163- 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
8 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Gaffney's Lake Wilderness Lodge
between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1 acre in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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
Misuse of fire by a minor
2
Debris and open burning
1
Arson/incendiarism
1
Equipment and vehicle use
1
Natural
1
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
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
2 August 1995
Equipment and vehicle use
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
19 August 1994
Misuse of fire by a minor
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
8 June 1994
Misuse of fire by a minor
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
7 June 2019
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
LANDSBURG
30 June 1994
Arson/incendiarism
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
5 May 2017
Natural
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
LANDSBURG ROAD
24 April 1992
Debris and open burning
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
19 April 2016
Power generation/transmission/distribution
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
18 workings within 5 miles of Gaffney's Lake Wilderness Lodge: 15 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Arsenic, Aluminum. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
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
4 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.
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