Deception Pass State Park-Cranberry Lake Caretaker's Area Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.

From the record

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Island County · listed in 2019 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 41020 WA 20, Oak Harbor, 98277
When was it listed? November 2019
Category. district
Also known as. Historic Park Landscapes in National and State Parks MPS
Census division. North Whidbey Island
National Register reference number. 100004647 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

76 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Deception Pass State Park-Cranberry Lake Caretaker's Area Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 49 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 4 were 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	31
Debris and open burning	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Smoking	9
Arson/incendiarism	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Natural	3
Other causes	3
Fireworks	2

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
7 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Northwest Region-Department of Natural Resources	GINNETT RD
7 September 1993	Recreation and ceremony	2.3 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
6 September 2012	Smoking	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	SLEEPER
5 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	CORNET
3 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
2 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
17 September 2005	Fireworks	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	SKAGIT ISLAND CANDLE
17 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Every fire recorded in Island County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Deception Pass State Park-Cranberry Lake Caretaker's Area Historic District: 8 past producers, 5 producers, 5 occurrences, 3 unknowns. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Copper, REE. 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
Fidalgo Island	Silver, Gold, Copper	Occurrence	Underground
Fidalgo Island	Copper, Gold	Prospect
Henni Pit and Mill	REE	Producer
Island Mine	Copper, Magnesite, Iron	Occurrence
Matrix Property	Gold, Copper	Occurrence	Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Copper, Pyrite
Mountain Home	Manganese	Occurrence
Mountain Home Claim	Copper, Manganese	Occurrence	Bementite, Chalcopyrite, Copper, Pyrite
Island Frontier Landscape Const.Co.	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown
Northwest Talc & Magnesium Co	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown
Deane Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Island 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

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Deception Pass State Park-Cornet Bay Incinerator	0.2 miles	2019
Deception Pass State Park-Cranberry Lake Bathing and Picnic Area Historic District	0.3 miles	2019
Deception Pass State Park-Cornet Bay Fire Circle	0.4 miles	2019
Deception Pass State Park-North Beach Picnic Area Historic District	0.5 miles	2019
Deception Pass State Park-Rosario and Bowman Bathing, Picnic, and Caretaker's Areas Historic District	1.5 miles	2019
Benjamin Loers House	7.8 miles	1977

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100004647 in Record Group 79.
Island County	All 15 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.