Pelton Creek Shelter

Built in 1930 (rustic architecture). 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: Building · built in 1930, rustic architecture.

Sources: 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 as contributing to the listing.
Address. Approx. 15.5 mi. up the Queets River Trail, Port Angeles, 98331
When was it listed? July 2007
Category. building
Also known as. Olympic National Park MPS
Census division. West End
When was it built? 1930
Architectural style. rustic architecture
National Register reference number. 07000727 - 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

6 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Pelton Creek Shelter between 1992 and 2016, burning about 2,823 acres in total. 5 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	5
Recreation and ceremony	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
10 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Olympic National Park	THREE PRUNE
13 August 1992	Natural	under an acre	Olympic National Park	VORTEX
13 August 1992	Natural	under an acre	Olympic National Park	PELTZ
13 August 1992	Natural	7.0 acres	Olympic National Park	PARADISE
13 August 1992	Natural	under an acre	Olympic National Park	JIMMY
15 June 2015	Natural	2,815 acres	Olympic National Park	PARADISE

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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07000727 in Record Group 79.
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.