Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
From the record
“La Wis Wis Guard Station No. 1165 is located in Gifford Pinchot National Forest near Packwood, Washington. The station was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1937 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.”
Wikipedia article La Wis Wis Guard Station No. 1165, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 33 National Register listings published here for Lewis County · listed in 1986 · category: Building.
Also known as. Depression-Era Buildings TR; Depression-Era Buildings Oregon and Washington TR
Census division. Big Bottom
Architectural style. rustic architecture
National Register reference number.86000813- 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
92 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 92 fires within 5 miles of La Wis Wis Guard Station No. 1165
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 408 acres in total. 23 started naturally. 2 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
40
Natural
23
Smoking
10
Debris and open burning
7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
5
Equipment and vehicle use
4
Arson/incendiarism
2
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
9 September 2018
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Gifford Pinchot National Forest
COAL CREEK
9 September 2012
Natural
under an acre
Gifford Pinchot National Forest
BIRTHDAY
8 September 2018
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Gifford Pinchot National Forest
LITTLE T
7 September 2012
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
RAINIER DRIVE
7 September 2011
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Gifford Pinchot National Forest
FLAT
6 September 2020
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Gifford Pinchot National Forest
VALLEY 8
6 September 2011
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Gifford Pinchot National Forest
HANSON
6 September 2007
Arson/incendiarism
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
7 workings within 5 miles of La Wis Wis Guard Station No. 1165: 3 past producers, 3 occurrences, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Nickel, Stone, Dimension, Geothermal. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Packwood, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2006: 1 flood.
The reports record 2 deaths. 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.
Record flooding occurred on the Cowlitz, Nooksack, Puyallup, Nisqually, |Skykomish, Stillaguamish, Carbon, Snoqualmie, and Bogachiel. Major flooding occurred on the Tolt, Snohomish, Skokomish, Skagit, and White rivers. Other rivers flooding were the Satsop, Cedar, Wynoochee, Elwha, Deschutes, Dungeness, Skookumchuck, and Chehalis.
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
2 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.
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.
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