Botten Cabin

Built in 1929 (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 1929, rustic architecture, by Grant Humes.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 20.9 mi. from Whiskey Bend Trailhead on the Elwha River Trail, Port Angeles
When was it listed? July 2007
Category. building
Also known as. Olympic National Park MPS
Census division. Quilcene Bay-Brinnon
When was it built? 1929
Architectural style. rustic architecture
Architect. Grant Humes
National Register reference number. 07000729 - 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 Botten Cabin between 1992 and 2019, burning about 3,974 acres in total. 41 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	41
Recreation and ceremony	3

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
14 September 1995	Natural	15 acres	Olympic National Park	DELABARRE
5 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Olympic National Park	GODKIN
4 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Olympic National Park	FOUND2
4 August 1994	Natural	1.0 acres	Olympic National Park	CLAYMATION
31 August 2019	Natural	40 acres	Olympic National Park	MT. DANA
3 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Olympic National Park	CRYSTAL4
3 August 1994	Natural	5.0 acres	Olympic National Park	CRYSTAL 2
3 August 1994	Natural	18 acres	Olympic National Park	CRYSTAL 1

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

3 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
Hayes River Fire Cache	3.2 miles	2007
Elk Lick Lodge	6.5 miles	2007
Enchanted Valley Chalet	6.8 miles	2007

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07000729 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.