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One of 23 National Register listings published here for Kittitas County · listed in 1974 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Salmon la Sac Guard Station
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. N of Cle Elum in Wenatchee National Forest, Cle Elum, 98940
- When was it listed? July 1974
- Category. building
- Census division. Cle Elum
- National Register reference number. 74001964 - 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
148 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 148 fires within 5 miles of Salmon la Sac Guard Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 37,824 acres in total. 29 started naturally. 3 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 | 68 |
| Natural | 29 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 23 |
| Fireworks | 11 |
| Smoking | 10 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 7 September 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest | HAWKINS MTN |
| 5 September 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest | LITTLE JOE |
| 4 September 2006 | Natural | 969 acres | Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest | POLLALIE |
| 4 September 2006 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest | TERANCE |
| 4 September 2006 | Natural | 10 acres | Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest | MICHAEL |
| 4 September 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest | HOWSON CREEK |
| 3 September 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest | FRENCH CABIN |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 34 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 34 workings within 5 miles of Salmon la Sac Guard Station: 14 occurrences, 12 prospects, 6 past producers, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Gold, Chromium, Iron. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Bonnet | Copper, Silver, Nickel, Gold | Prospect | ||
| Blue Bonnet Prospect | Copper, Silver, Gold, Nickel | Occurrence | Residual | |
| Bob Canson Prospect | Copper, Arsenic | Occurrence | Chalcopyrite, Pyrite | |
| Brown Bear | Gold, Silver, Lead | Unknown | ||
| Camp Creek Mine | Lead, Zinc, Silver, Copper, Antimony, Arsenic | Past Producer | 1929 | |
| Cascade | Gold, Lead, Silver | Unknown | ||
| China Camp Placer | Gold, Platinum | Occurrence | Stream Placer | |
| Cle Elum | Iron, Chromium, Nickel, PGE | Occurrence | 1887 | |
| Cle Elum River Iron | Nickel, Chromium, Iron | Occurrence | Garnierite, Hematite, Magnetite, Millerite | |
| Denny | Mercury, Chromium, Gold, Nickel | Occurrence | Residual |
Storms near this property
7 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cle Elum, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2003 and 2009: 2 wildfire, 2 hail, 2 flood, 1 heavy rain. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2009 | Heavy Rain | Cle Elum | - | Rainfall of 1.5 to 2 inches accompanied by small hail fell within 1 hour. |
| March 2007 | Flood | Cle Elum | - | Elk Meadows subdivision near Interstate 90 northwest of Cle Elum had water 1 foot deep over roads on March 12-13. |
| November 2006 | Flood | Cle Elum | - | The Elk Meadows Subdivision, 6 miles northwest of Cle Elem had water overspread the area on November 6th with the Yakima River rising about 2 feet. The water continued to rise with the roads covered by the morning of the 7th. The water receded back into the river on the 9th. |
| September 2003 | Wildfire | Cle Elum | - | The Crystal Creek Fire was a lightning sparked fire which burned 1,584 acres. The fire became completely contained on October 14th. |
| October 2003 | Wildfire | Cle Elum | - | The Crystal Creek Fire burned 1,584 acres. The fire was originally started by lightning on September 24th. |
| July 2006 | Hail | Cle Elum | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Cle Elum | - | no account filed |
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 74001964 in Record Group 79. |
| Kittitas County | All 23 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.
- Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.