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Photograph of North Fork Quinault Ranger Station
Photograph by ECTran71, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

North Fork Quinault Ranger Station

Built in 1930. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

One of 75 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 2007 · category: District · built in 1930, by United States Forest Service.

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

The listing

  • Address. Approx. 18 mi. NE of WA 101 on N. Fork Rd. off N. Shore Quinault Rd., Port Angeles, 98331
  • When was it listed? July 2007
  • Category. district
  • Also known as. Olympic National Park MPS
  • Census division. West End
  • When was it built? 1930
  • Architect. United States Forest Service
  • National Register reference number. 07000718 - 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

16 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of North Fork Quinault Ranger Station between 1992 and 2017, burning about 9 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 ceremony7
Natural4
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
4 September 2006Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOlympic National ParkELIP
26 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOlympic National ParkIRELY LAKE
19 September 1996Naturalunder an acreOlympic National ParkELIPE
29 August 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOlympic National Park3 LAKES
22 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOlympic National ParkESCAPEE
15 August 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
5 July 1997Naturalunder an acreOlympic National ParkNFROAD#1
5 July 1997Naturalunder an acreOlympic National ParkMT WATSON2

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of North Fork Quinault Ranger Station: 1 prospect. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Rustler CreekGoldProspect

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 PropertyDistance Listed
Graves Creek Ranger Station3.2 miles2007

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 07000718 in Record Group 79.
Jefferson CountyAll 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.