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One of 16 National Register listings published here for Okanogan County · listed in 1981 · category: Building · built in 1914.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Bonaparte Mountain Cabin
Built in 1914. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. E of Tonasket in Okanogan National Forest, Tonasket, 98855
- When was it listed? April 1981
- Category. building
- Census division. Oroville
- When was it built? 1914
- National Register reference number. 81000588 - 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
78 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Bonaparte Mountain Cabin between 1992 and 2019, burning about 241 acres in total. 52 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 52 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest | SPUR MOUNTAIN |
| 7 September 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest | BONAPARTE |
| 7 September 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest | BONAPARTE SIDE |
| 7 September 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | LOST |
| 6 September 1998 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest | POWER ART |
| 5 September 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest | BONAPARTE |
| 4 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 4 September 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest | SAMANTHA |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Bonaparte Mountain Cabin: 5 occurrences, 4 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Molybdenum, Peat, Tungsten, Manganese. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bi-Metallic | Tungsten, Silver, Gold, Copper, Molybdenum | Past Producer | Chalcopyrite, Molybdenite, Powellite, Scheelite | |
| Bi-Metallic | Molybdenum, Silver, Gold, Copper, Tungsten | Unknown | ||
| Bi-Metallic Mine | Molybdenum, Copper, Silver, Gold, Tungsten | Past Producer | 1896, 1918 | |
| Havilla | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| Moore | Manganese | Past Producer | 1936 | |
| Bimetalic Molybdenum Prospect | Molybdenum, Tungsten | Past Producer | ||
| Bonaparte Lake | Peat | Occurrence | Sedimentary | |
| Bonaparte Meadows | Peat | Occurrence | Sedimentary | |
| Bi-Metalic | Molybdenum | Occurrence | 1890, 1918 | |
| Bimetallic Ming | Molybdenum | Occurrence |
Storms near this property
3 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tonasket, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1997 and 2014: 1 hail, 1 flash flood, 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 1997 | Hail | Tonasket | $40,000 | 1 1/4 inch hail and 70 mph wind from newspaper reports. Boats damaged and vehicles overturned at Lake Conconully |
| September 2013 | Flash Flood | Tonasket | $23,000 | A flash flood washed out approximately 200 yards of a portion of the eastbound lane of Highway 20 at milepost 266. One lane was kept open for traffic. Damage cost were estimated. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tonasket | $2,000 | Thunderstorm winds uprooted three to five large trees on the north end of town. A lightning strike hit a power pole and knocked out power to portions of the town. Heavy rain also overwhelmed storm drains resulting in some standing water over roadways. |
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 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Lost Lake Guard Station | 5.3 miles | 1986 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 81000588 in Record Group 79. |
| Okanogan County | All 16 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.