Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
From the record
“The Verlot Public Service Center used to be a ranger station, but is now just a visitor center after combining with the Darrington Ranger District. It is located on the Mountain Loop Highway eleven miles east of Granite Falls and is part of the Mt.”
Wikipedia article Verlot Ranger Station-Public Service Center, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 52 National Register listings published here for Snohomish County · listed in 1986 · category: Building.
Also known as. Depression-Era Buildings TR; Depression-Era Buildings Oregon and Washington TR
Census division. Granite Falls
National Register reference number.86000839- 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
59 since 1993
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Verlot Ranger Station-Public Service Center
between 1993 and 2020, burning about 21 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 3 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
36
Debris and open burning
6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
5
Natural
4
Arson/incendiarism
3
Smoking
2
Fireworks
2
Other causes
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
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
BILLYGOAT
8 September 2020
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest
GOLD BASIN CG
7 September 2000
Smoking
under an acre
Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest
HUNTER
26 September 1998
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest
PILCHUCK
21 September 2017
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest
ESSWINE
17 September 1998
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
12 September 2014
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
PILCHUCK LOOKOUT
12 September 1998
Debris and open burning
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 Verlot Ranger Station-Public Service Center: 3 past producers, 2 unknowns, 2 producers.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Dimension. 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
Granite Falls, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2011: 2 flood.
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.
About 33 homes, and one business, were damaged in Granite Falls, Arlington, and Stanwood when the Stillaguamish River hit record flood stage. Parts of Highway 530 were closed. About 240 homes were issued a voluntary evacuation, while 6 people had to be rescued by hovercraft near Granite Falls.
Flooding on the North Fork of the Skykomish River finally uprooted and washed away a cabin near index (it had been eroding the land for many years). The South Fork of the Stillaguamish river undermined a section of the Mountain Loop Highway east of Granite Falls.
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 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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