Pyramid Peak Aircraft Warning Service Lookout

Built in 1942. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“The Pyramid Peak Aircraft Warning Service Lookout was built in the fall of 1942 in Olympic National Park to function as a spotter station guarding against intrusions by Japanese aircraft during World War II. The single-story frame structure is located on the southern side of Pyramid Peak.”
Wikipedia article Pyramid Peak Aircraft Warning Service Lookout, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Clallam County · listed in 2007 · category: Structure · built in 1942, by United States Army.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. 3.5 miles up Pyramid Pk.trail at end of Camp David Jr. Rd., Port Angeles, 98363
When was it listed? July 2007
Category. structure
Also known as. Olympic National Park MPS
Census division. Crescent
When was it built? 1942
Architect. United States Army
National Register reference number. 07000726 - 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

80 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Pyramid Peak Aircraft Warning Service Lookout between 1992 and 2020, burning about 126 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 10 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
Recreation and ceremony	25
Natural	18
Arson/incendiarism	10
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Smoking	5
Debris and open burning	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Fireworks	2

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
5 September 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Olympic National Park	8TH SWITCHBACK
5 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Olympic National Park	L.C.101LOG
30 September 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
23 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	FISHER COVE FIRE
20 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
16 September 2009	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Olympic National Park	AARRGH
13 September 1993	Recreation and ceremony	1.5 acres	Olympic National Park	SPRUCE
10 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	LAKE SUTHERLAND

Every fire recorded in Clallam County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 31 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 31 workings within 5 miles of Pyramid Peak Aircraft Warning Service Lookout: 11 occurrences, 11 past producers, 6 prospects, 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Gemstone. 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
Bertha Prospect	Manganese, Iron	Occurrence	1940
Bright Angel	Tin, Manganese, Antimony	Past Producer	1941
Lake Crescent	Gemstone	Prospect
Lakeview Claim	Manganese, Iron, Aluminum, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Sulfur, Calcium	Occurrence	Replacement
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Victory Claim	Manganese, Iron, Calcium, Aluminum, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Sulfur	Occurrence	Replacement
Bertha Prospect	Manganese, Iron	Occurrence	Replacement
Blue Ox Prospect	Manganese, Iron	Occurrence	Replacement
Cedar Claim	Manganese, Iron	Occurrence	Replacement
Handy Prospect	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
Singer's Lake Crescent Tavern	1.0 miles	2007
Rosemary Inn	1.4 miles	1979
Wendel Property	1.5 miles	2007
Storm King Ranger Station	1.6 miles	2007
North Fork Sol Duc Shelter	5.7 miles	2007
Eagle Ranger Station	7.5 miles	2007

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07000726 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.