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Photograph of North Fork Guard Station No. 1142
Photograph by Ian Poellet, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

North Fork Guard Station No. 1142

Built in 1937. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The North Fork Guard Station No. 1142 is a historic United States Forest Service building located in Gifford Pinchot National Forest near Randle, Washington. The station was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1986.”

Wikipedia article North Fork Guard Station No. 1142, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 33 National Register listings published here for Lewis County · listed in 1986 · category: Building · built in 1937.

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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Randle Ranger Station, Gifford Pinchot National Forest, Randle, 98377
  • When was it listed? April 1986
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Depression-Era Buildings TR; Depression-Era Buildings Oregon and Washington TR
  • Census division. Big Bottom
  • When was it built? 1937
  • National Register reference number. 86000815 - 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 North Fork Guard Station No. 1142 between 1992 and 2020, burning about 10 acres in total. 5 started naturally. None 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 ceremony7
Natural5
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Fireworks1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGifford Pinchot National Forestnot named
4 September 2006Natural5.0 acresGifford Pinchot National ForestBISHOP
4 September 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGifford Pinchot National ForestBULLET
29 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGifford Pinchot National ForestPOKER
28 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGifford Pinchot National ForestJAMES
6 August 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGifford Pinchot National Forestnot named
24 August 2002Naturalunder an acreGifford Pinchot National ForestCASTLE BUTTE
24 August 2002Naturalunder an acreGifford Pinchot National ForestOWENS PASS

Every fire recorded in Lewis County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of North Fork Guard Station No. 1142: 2 occurrences, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
BruhnGoldOccurrence
JohnsonGoldOccurrence
PerryGoldUnknown

Every working recorded in Lewis 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 recordThe nomination case file for reference 86000815 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lewis CountyAll 33 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.