Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.
From the record
“The Altair Campground Community Kitchen, also known as Altaire Campground Community Kitchen, was built in Olympic National Park, Washington, United States, to serve the Altair Campground. It is an open rectangular shelter built in 1935 by the Civilian Conservation Corps personnel from the Elwha River Camp in the National Park Service Rustic style.”
Wikipedia article Altair Campground Community Kitchen, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 43 National Register listings published here for Clallam County · listed in 2007 · category: Structure.
National Register reference number.07000732- 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
60 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Altair Campground Community Kitchen
between 1992 and 2018, burning about 835 acres in total. 19 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
Recreation and ceremony
21
Natural
19
Smoking
8
Debris and open burning
4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
4
Equipment and vehicle use
1
Fireworks
1
Other causes
1
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
9 September 2006
Smoking
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
7 September 2001
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Olympic National Park
ELWHA RSRT
6 September 2003
Natural
820 acres
Olympic National Park
GRIFF
4 September 1995
Natural
under an acre
Olympic National Park
HURRICANE
3 September 1993
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Olympic National Park
ISLANDS2
29 September 2000
Arson/incendiarism
1.0 acres
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
27 September 2001
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
31 workings within 5 miles of Altair Campground Community Kitchen: 15 occurrences, 10 past producers, 4 prospects, 2 unknowns.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Gold, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
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.
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.
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