Glacier Ranger Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Glacier Ranger Station is a park ranger office for the Glacier District of Baker National Forest in the U.S. state of Washington. Camp Glacier (F-12) was one of 70 Civilian Conservation Corps camps in Washington state, among the earliest states to establish them, and built the Glacier Ranger Station.”
Wikipedia article Glacier Ranger Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 74 National Register listings published here for Whatcom County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Mount Baker Hwy., Glacier, 98244
When was it listed? September 1980
Category. building
Also known as. Depression-Era Buildings TR (AD); Depression-Era Buildings Oregon and Washington TR; Depression-Era Buildings Oregon and Washington TR
Census division. East Whatcom
National Register reference number. 80004013 - 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

20 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Glacier Ranger Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 10 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Debris and open burning	1
Smoking	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 1992	Natural	1.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
26 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest	not named
22 September 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest	SKYLINE
22 September 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest	DEADHORSE
3 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
27 August 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest	KIDNEY
19 August 2006	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest	DEAD HORSE
18 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Every fire recorded in Whatcom County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Glacier Ranger Station: 7 occurrences, 3 past producers, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Gold, Silver, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Copper, Gold, Silver. 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
Church Mountain Deposit	Gold, Iron	Occurrence	Placer
Church Mountain Deposit	Iron	Occurrence
Church Mountain Deposits	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Glacier	Copper, Gold, Silver	Occurrence
Glacier Sandstone Occurrence	Flagstone, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Occurrence
Red Bird Prospect	Copper, Gold, Zinc	Occurrence	Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Gold, Malachite, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Western Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Glacier Mine	Copper, Gold, Silver	Past Producer	1951
Glacier Mine	Copper, Gold, Silver	Prospect

Every working recorded in Whatcom County

Storms near this property

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glacier, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2009: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Glacier	-	Couple of dozen trees, some very large old growth, were blown down across several areas of the Baker Lake Highway. About 50 cars, were trapped behind until the road was cleared.

Every storm recorded in Whatcom 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
	Nooksack Falls Hydroelectric Power Plant	5.2 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80004013 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Whatcom County	All 74 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.