Fifteen Mile Shelter

Built in 1928 (rustic architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Clallam County · listed in 2007 · category: Building · built in 1928, rustic architecture, by United States Forest Service.

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. Approx. 12.4 mi. from park boundary on N Fork Bogachiel R Trail, Port Ngeles, 98331
When was it listed? July 2007
Category. building
Also known as. Olympic National Park MPS
Census division. Crescent
When was it built? 1928
Architectural style. rustic architecture
Architect. United States Forest Service
National Register reference number. 07000715 - 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

6 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Fifteen Mile Shelter between 1996 and 2020, burning about 2 acres in total. 2 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
Recreation and ceremony	3
Natural	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
2 September 1996	Smoking	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
3 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
18 August 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Olympic National Park	WATER TANK
17 August 2020	Natural	1.5 acres	Olympic National Forest	SITKUM
16 August 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Olympic National Park	BIG SPRUCE
24 July 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Olympic National Park	.09 HOH FIRE

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

1 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Hyak Shelter	2.8 miles	2007

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07000715 in Record Group 79.
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.