Randle Ranger Station-Work Center

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The Randle Ranger Station-Work Center is located within Gifford Pinchot National Forest near Randle, Washington. The center was built during 1935-36 by the Civilian Conservation Corps and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986 for its architecture.”
Wikipedia article Randle Ranger Station-Work Center, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 33 National Register listings published here for Lewis 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 7 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Randle Ranger Station--Work Center - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 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
Architectural style. rustic architecture
National Register reference number. 86000816 - 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

46 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Randle Ranger Station-Work Center between 1992 and 2020, burning about 165 acres in total. 4 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
Debris and open burning	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Recreation and ceremony	6
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Natural	4
Smoking	4
Other causes	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Fireworks	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 2001	Smoking	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
5 September 2006	Natural	1.5 acres	Gifford Pinchot National Forest	SILVER CREEK
5 September 2003	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
3 September 2005	Smoking	under an acre	Gifford Pinchot National Forest	FOOTBALL
20 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
10 September 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	KIONA ROAD
9 August 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	SAVIO
9 August 1998	Other causes	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Every fire recorded in Lewis County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Randle Ranger Station-Work Center: 7 past producers, 7 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Pumice, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
Unnamed Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unnamed Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Kiona Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Smathers Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Squatter Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Cowlitz Valley C	Pumice	Occurrence
Hunt & Gaines Pit	Pumice	Past Producer
Kiona Creek A	Pumice	Occurrence
Kiona Creek B	Pumice	Occurrence

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 record	The nomination case file for reference 86000816 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lewis County	All 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.