Graves Creek Ranger Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“The Graves Creek Ranger Station is a small historic district in Olympic National Park, Washington, USA. It includes the first administrative buildings to be built by the National Park Service in the newly designated park.”
Wikipedia article Graves Creek Ranger Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 75 National Register listings published here for Jefferson 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. 22 mi. NE of WA 101 on Quinault River Rd., Port Angeles
When was it listed? July 2007
Category. district
Also known as. Olympic National Park MPS
Census division. West End
Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
Architect. Civilian Conservation Corps, National Park Service
National Register reference number. 07000717 - 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

17 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Graves Creek Ranger Station between 1996 and 2017, burning about 2 acres in total. 4 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	12
Natural	4
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
8 September 2014	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Olympic National Park	PONY BRIDGE
8 September 2014	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Olympic National Park	FIRE CREEK
26 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Olympic National Park	IRELY LAKE
19 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Olympic National Park	ELIPE
10 September 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Olympic National Forest	CHIKAMIN CREEK
8 August 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Olympic National Park	PONY BRIDG
30 August 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Olympic National Park	EAST FORK
26 August 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Olympic National Park	BIG CREEK

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Graves Creek Ranger Station: 1 prospect, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Rustler Creek	Gold	Prospect
	Rustler Creek Claim	Gold	Occurrence	Gold

Every working recorded in Jefferson 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
	North Fork Quinault Ranger Station	3.2 miles	2007

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07000717 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jefferson County	All 75 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.