Elwha Ranger Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“The Elwha Ranger Station is a historic district in Olympic National Park, originally built in the 1930s for the U.S. The complex of fourteen buildings is divided in two by Olympic Hotsprings Road.”
Wikipedia article Elwha Ranger 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. Approx. 3 mi. SE of WA 101 on the Olympic Hot Springs Rd., Port Angeles, 98363
When was it listed? July 2007
Category. district
Also known as. Olympic National Park MPS
Census division. Port Angeles
Architect. United States Forest Service
National Register reference number. 07000716 - 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

61 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Elwha Ranger Station between 1992 and 2018, burning about 838 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 3 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	19
Recreation and ceremony	18
Smoking	8
Debris and open burning	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Fireworks	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
9 September 2006	Smoking	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
7 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Olympic National Park	ELWHA RSRT
6 September 2003	Natural	820 acres	Olympic National Park	GRIFF
4 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Olympic National Park	HURRICANE
29 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
29 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
27 September 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
14 September 1992	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Olympic National Park	LEWIS LAST

Every fire recorded in Clallam County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 32 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 32 workings within 5 miles of Elwha Ranger Station: 15 occurrences, 11 past producers, 4 prospects, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Gold, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Angeles Star	Gold, Zinc, Copper	Occurrence	Chalcopyrite, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Angeles Star Group	Zinc, Gold, Copper	Prospect
Hurricane	Manganese, Iron	Occurrence	Bementite, Hausmannite, Rhodonite
Ozette Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Chappie Claim	Manganese, Iron	Occurrence	Replacement
Ella Claim	Manganese, Iron	Occurrence	Replacement
F. and L. Claim	Manganese, Iron	Occurrence	Replacement
Hurricane Claim	Manganese, Iron	Past Producer	Bementite, Hausmannite, Hematite, Rhodonite
J and J and Sunset Claim	Manganese, Iron	Occurrence	Replacement

Every working 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

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
Altair Campground Community Kitchen	0.4 miles	2007
Elwah Campground Community Kitchen	0.8 miles	2007
Glines Canyon Hydroelectric Power Plant	1.0 miles	1988
Michael's Cabin	4.7 miles	2007
Humes Ranch Cabin (Boundary Increase)	5.0 miles	2007
Humes Ranch Cabin	5.2 miles	1977

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07000716 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.
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.