Chatter Creek Guard Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The Chatter Creek Guard Station is a Rustic style set of buildings in Wenatchee National Forest, in Leavenworth, Washington. It was designed by the USDA Forest Service Architecture Group and built by the Civilian Conservation Corps.”
Wikipedia article Chatter Creek Guard Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 46 National Register listings published here for Chelan County · listed in 1986 · 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 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Wenatchee National Forest, Leavenworth, 98826
When was it listed? April 1986
Category. building
Also known as. Depression-Era Buildings TR; Depression-Era Buildings Oregon and Washington TR
Census division. Leavenworth-Lake Wenatchee
Architectural style. rustic architecture
National Register reference number. 86000812 - 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

64 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Chatter Creek Guard Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,663 acres in total. 28 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	28
Recreation and ceremony	23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Arson/incendiarism	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
9 September 2012	Natural	2,779 acres	Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest	MT. CASHMERE
9 September 2012	Natural	under an acre	Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest	JOHNNY CREEK
7 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.7 acres	Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest	TROUT LAKE
7 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest	not named
6 September 2002	Natural	1.0 acres	Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest	GRINDSTONE
3 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest	EDNA LAKE
22 September 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest	TROUT CREEK
7 August 1997	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest	MUD BUG

Every fire recorded in Chelan County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Chatter Creek Guard Station: 3 occurrences, 1 past producer, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Asbestos, Copper, 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
Elvira Gold	Gold, Copper, Silver	Unknown
Trout Creek	Asbestos	Occurrence
Trout Lake	Asbestos	Occurrence
Addie No. 1	Gold	Occurrence
Icicle Creek	Gold	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Chelan County

Storms near this property

9 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leavenworth, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 2006 and 2021: 4 flood, 2 flash flood, 2 debris flow, 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
September 2013	Flash Flood	Leavenworth	$40,000	Flash flooding and debris on Fourth of July Creek above Icicle Creek closed off National Park Road 76. Many campers were stranded above where the flash flood occurred until the road was cleared of debris. Damage costs were estimated.
January 2021	Debris Flow	Leavenworth	$20,000	A hillside along State Route 2 began slowly sliding, striking the Department of Transportation guardrail, and partially blocked the eastbound lane. The mudslide was triggered by already saturated soil and wet snow.
March 2011	Flood	Leavenworth	$10,000	A blocked railroad culvert resulted in water flooding out onto Chumstick Highway near Freund Canyon about 1.3 miles north of Leavenworth. The water was about a foot deep across the road for a brief period resulting in its closure. Parts of the road were damaged by the flowing water.
January 2015	Flood	Leavenworth	-	Newspaper posted two photos and narrative on their Facebook page showing a structure used to store rafting equipment being flooded. Comments to the post note that the flooding is from rain, slush and melting snow and ice as the structure is in a natural depression near a mountain.
December 2015	Debris Flow	Leavenworth	-	An emergency manager reported a mudslide on SR-2 just west of Leavenworth, WA. The road was closed and the flow was estimated at 10 feet deep.
November 2006	Flood	Leavenworth	-	Very heavy rain led to flooding on Icicle Creek near Icicle Island.
November 2006	Flood	Leavenworth	-	Very heavy rain led to rapid rises on the Wenatchee River, with major flooding of fields on East Leavenworth Road.
January 2009	Heavy Rain	Leavenworth	-	no account filed
June 2006	Flash Flood	Leavenworth	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chelan 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86000812 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Chelan County	All 46 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.