Three Forks Shelter

Built in 1930 (rustic architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Clallam County · listed in 2007 · category: Building · built in 1930, rustic architecture, by United States Forest Service.

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. 4.5 mi. from the Three Fords Trailhead at Deer Park Campground, Port Angeles, 98362
When was it listed? July 2007
Category. building
Also known as. Olympic National Park MPS
Census division. Port Angeles
When was it built? 1930
Architectural style. rustic architecture
Architect. United States Forest Service
National Register reference number. 07000728 - 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

44 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Three Forks Shelter between 1992 and 2017, burning about 13 acres in total. 30 started naturally. 1 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	30
Recreation and ceremony	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Arson/incendiarism	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 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Olympic National Park	ROYAL BASI
29 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Olympic National Forest	SLAB CAMP
29 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Olympic National Forest	SLOP CAMP
20 September 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Olympic National Forest	CLIFF CAMP
15 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Olympic National Park	BLUE MT
1 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Olympic National Forest	GRAY WOLF
7 August 2012	Natural	under an acre	Olympic National Park	MAIDEN
6 August 1997	Natural	under an acre	Olympic National Park	GRAY

Every fire recorded in Clallam 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 Three Forks Shelter: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Manganese. 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
	O & O Manganese	Manganese	Prospect

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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07000728 in Record Group 79.
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.