Hayes River Fire Cache

Built in 1928. 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: Structure · built in 1928.

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 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Approx. 16.8 mi. up the Elwha River Trail, Port Angeles
When was it listed? July 2007
Category. structure
Also known as. Olympic National Park MPS
Census division. Quilcene Bay-Brinnon
When was it built? 1928
National Register reference number. 07000738 - 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

32 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Hayes River Fire Cache between 1992 and 2019, burning about 3,357 acres in total. 26 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	26
Recreation and ceremony	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Smoking	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
6 August 1997	Natural	under an acre	Olympic National Park	DODGER#3
5 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Olympic National Park	RUDY
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
30 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Olympic National Park	LUDDEN
3 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Olympic National Park	FOUND
3 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Olympic National Park	GOLDIE

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Hayes River Fire Cache: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Iron, Iron, 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
	Mount Claywood	Manganese, Iron	Occurrence	Replacement
	Mount Claywood	Iron, Manganese	Occurrence	1956

Every working 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

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Botten Cabin	3.2 miles	2007
	Elk Lick Lodge	3.4 miles	2007

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07000738 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.
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.