Elkhorn Guard Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“The Elkhorn Guard Station, also known as the Elkhorn Ranger Station, comprises four buildings in the backcountry of Olympic National Park, Washington. Forest Service between 1930 and 1934, before the establishment of the national park, when the lands were part of Olympic National Forest (USFS).”
Wikipedia article Elkhorn Guard Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Clallam County · listed in 2007 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Apprx. 11.5 mi. along Elwha River Trail from the Whiskey Bend Trailhead, Port Angeles
When was it listed? July 2007
Category. district
Also known as. Olympic National Park MPS
Census division. Port Angeles
Architectural style. rustic architecture
Architect. United States Forest Service, Civilian Conservation Corps
National Register reference number. 07000714 - 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

42 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Elkhorn Guard Station between 1992 and 2017, burning about 2,501 acres in total. 34 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	34
Recreation and ceremony	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
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
19 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Olympic National Park	LUDDEN
11 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Olympic National Park	TRAIL
6 August 1997	Natural	under an acre	Olympic National Park	DODGER#3
6 August 1997	Natural	under an acre	Olympic National Park	DODGER#2
6 August 1997	Natural	under an acre	Olympic National Park	DODGER#1
6 August 1997	Natural	under an acre	Olympic National Park	WINDFALL
6 August 1997	Natural	under an acre	Olympic National Park	BAGPIPE
6 August 1997	Natural	under an acre	Olympic National Park	STRUNK

Every fire recorded in Clallam 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

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Dodger Point Fire Lookout	1.8 miles	2007
Humes Ranch Cabin	6.2 miles	1977
Humes Ranch Cabin (Boundary Increase)	6.4 miles	2007
Michael's Cabin	6.8 miles	2007

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07000714 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clallam County	All 43 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.