Olympus Guard Station

Built in 1935 (National Park Service rustic). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“The Olympus Guard Station near Port Angeles, Washington was built in 1930s. Forest Service and was designed by architects of the U.S.”
Wikipedia article Olympus Guard Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 75 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 2007 · category: District · built in 1935, National Park Service rustic, by United States Forest Service, National Park Service.

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

The listing

Address. Approx. 9 mi. from Hoh River Trailhead at Hoh Ranger Station, Port Angeles, 98331
When was it listed? November 2007
Category. district
Also known as. Olympic National Park MPS
Census division. West End
When was it built? 1935
Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
Architect. United States Forest Service, National Park Service
National Register reference number. 07000722 - 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

27 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Olympus Guard Station between 1992 and 2018, burning about 16 acres in total. 17 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	17
Recreation and ceremony	9
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
3 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Olympic National Park	MIDNIGHT
24 September 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Olympic National Park	MARTIN CRK
8 August 2006	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Olympic National Park	HOH LAKE TRAIL
6 August 1997	Natural	under an acre	Olympic National Park	GUARD
6 August 1997	Natural	under an acre	Olympic National Park	SLIDE
6 August 1997	Natural	under an acre	Olympic National Park	SOLDUC
6 August 1997	Natural	under an acre	Olympic National Park	ROUND
6 August 1997	Natural	under an acre	Olympic National Park	HORSE

Every fire 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
	Happy Four Shelter	3.0 miles	2007

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07000722 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.