Region Six Personnel Training Station

Built in 1937. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Skamania County · listed in 2007 · category: Building · built in 1937.

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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Wind River Work Center, 1262 Hemlock Rd., Gifford Pinchot National Forest, 98610
When was it listed? August 2007
Category. building
Also known as. USDA Forest Service Administrative Buildings in Oregon and Washington Built by the CCC MPS
Census division. Carson-Underwood
When was it built? 1937
National Register reference number. 07000895 - 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

35 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Region Six Personnel Training Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 9 acres in total. 12 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	12
Recreation and ceremony	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Debris and open burning	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
5 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Gifford Pinchot National Forest	PLANTATION
4 September 2006	Natural	under an acre	Gifford Pinchot National Forest	BACKYARD
27 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	WIND RIVER
27 September 2005	Natural	1.0 acres	Gifford Pinchot National Forest	BOUNDARY FIRE
11 September 2012	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	STEVENSON RIDGE
7 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	NATRUAL SLIDES
7 August 2004	Natural	under an acre	Gifford Pinchot National Forest	STEELHEAD
7 August 2004	Natural	under an acre	Gifford Pinchot National Forest	PILOT

Every fire recorded in Skamania 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 Region Six Personnel Training Station: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Skamania 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

1 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
	Government Mineral Springs Guard Station	6.3 miles	2017

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07000895 in Record Group 79.
Skamania County	All 4 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.