Photograph of Gotchen Creek Ranger Station — Photograph by Ian Poellet, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Gothen Creek Ranger Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

One of 73 National Register listings published here for Yakima County · listed in 2007 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Forest Service Rd., Gifford Pinchot National Forest
When was it listed? April 2007
Category. building
Census division. South Yakima
National Register reference number. 07000369 - 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

65 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Gothen Creek Ranger Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 25,239 acres in total. 40 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	40
Recreation and ceremony	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Debris and open burning	4
Arson/incendiarism	2
Smoking	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 2012	Natural	20,296 acres	Gifford Pinchot National Forest	CASCADE CREEK
8 September 2012	Natural	under an acre	Gifford Pinchot National Forest	SNIPES
3 September 2009	Natural	93 acres	Gifford Pinchot National Forest	CROFTON
2 September 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
18 September 2004	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Gifford Pinchot National Forest	WARMING FIRE
15 September 2001	Natural	10 acres	Gifford Pinchot National Forest	AIKEN
11 September 2012	Natural	under an acre	Yakama Agency	BIRD CREEK
10 September 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Gifford Pinchot National Forest	MARS STADIUM

Every fire recorded in Yakima 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 07000369 in Record Group 79.
Yakima County	All 73 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.