BlockFrom the record
One of 4 National Register listings published here for Skamania County · listed in 2013 · category: Site.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
Lawetlat'la
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.
The listing
- Address. Gifford Pinchot NF, Cougar
- When was it listed? September 2013
- Category. site
- Census division. North Skamania
- National Register reference number. 13000748 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
12 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Lawetlat'la between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2 acres in total. 7 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 | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Gifford Pinchot National Forest | SHEEP |
| 9 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Gifford Pinchot National Forest | 83 |
| 21 September 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Gifford Pinchot National Forest | GOAT MARSH |
| 22 August 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Gifford Pinchot National Forest | BIVY |
| 2 August 1994 | Smoking | under an acre | Gifford Pinchot National Forest | not named |
| 16 July 2004 | Natural | under an acre | Gifford Pinchot National Forest | SOUTH FORK FIRE |
| 14 July 2004 | Natural | under an acre | Gifford Pinchot National Forest | APE CANYON |
| 13 July 2004 | Natural | under an acre | Gifford Pinchot National Forest | MUD FLAP |
Mines and quarries near this property
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Lawetlat'la: 4 occurrences, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Pumice. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Draughon Pit | Pumice | Past Producer | ||
| East St. Helens | Pumice | Occurrence | ||
| Ranger Station | Pumice | Occurrence | ||
| Swift Creek A | Pumice | Occurrence | ||
| Swift Creek B | Pumice | Occurrence |
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.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 13000748 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| 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.