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Photograph of Dodger Point Fire Lookout
Photograph by National Park Service, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Dodger Point Fire Lookout

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“The Dodger Point Fire Lookout was built in 1933 in Olympic National Park as a fire observation station. The single-story frame structure is located on the peak of Dodger Point above the timber line at an elevation of 5,753 feet (1,754 m).”

Wikipedia article Dodger Point Fire Lookout, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Clallam County · listed in 2007 · category: Structure.

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 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Approx. 13 mi. along Dodger Point Trail starting at the Whiskey Bend Trail, Port Angeles
  • When was it listed? July 2007
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Olympic National Park MPS
  • Architect. United States Forest Service
  • National Register reference number. 07000736 - 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

38 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Dodger Point Fire Lookout between 1992 and 2020, burning about 25 acres in total. 29 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
Natural29
Recreation and ceremony7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
19 September 2013Naturalunder an acreOlympic National ParkLUDDEN
11 September 1995Naturalunder an acreOlympic National ParkTRAIL
6 August 1997Naturalunder an acreOlympic National ParkDODGER#3
6 August 1997Naturalunder an acreOlympic National ParkDODGER#2
6 August 1997Naturalunder an acreOlympic National ParkDODGER#1
6 August 1997Naturalunder an acreOlympic National ParkWINDFALL
6 August 1997Naturalunder an acreOlympic National ParkBAGPIPE
6 August 1997Naturalunder an acreOlympic National ParkSTRUNK

Every fire 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

4 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Elkhorn Guard Station1.8 miles2007
Humes Ranch Cabin5.3 miles1977
Humes Ranch Cabin (Boundary Increase)5.5 miles2007
Michael's Cabin5.8 miles2007

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 07000736 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clallam CountyAll 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.