Government Mineral Springs Guard Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.

From the record

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Skamania County · listed in 2017 · category: Building.

Sources: 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. End of FS Rd. 3065 off of Wind R. Hwy., Mt. Adams Ranger Dist., Gifford Pinchot NF, 98610
When was it listed? December 2017
Category. building
Census division. North Skamania
National Register reference number. 100001939 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

27 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Government Mineral Springs Guard Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 25,003 acres in total. 6 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	9
Natural	6
Smoking	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Debris and open burning	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
8 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	24,995 acres	Gifford Pinchot National Forest	BIG HOLLOW
8 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	Gifford Pinchot National Forest	WEST ROCK
27 September 2005	Natural	1.0 acres	Gifford Pinchot National Forest	BOUNDARY FIRE
25 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Gifford Pinchot National Forest	SODA PEAKS LAKE
15 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Gifford Pinchot National Forest	SODA PEAK
13 September 2011	Smoking	under an acre	Gifford Pinchot National Forest	SODA PEAK
12 September 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Gifford Pinchot National Forest	HUNTER
1 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Gifford Pinchot National Forest	DRY CREEK

Every fire recorded in Skamania County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Government Mineral Springs Guard Station: 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Semiprecious Gemstone, Copper, Silver, Arsenic. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Wind River	Semiprecious Gemstone	Occurrence
Wind River Mine	Gold, Copper, Silver, Arsenic	Past Producer	1925
Wind River Mine	Gold, Silver	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
	Region Six Personnel Training Station	6.3 miles	2007

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100001939 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.