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One of 52 National Register listings published here for Snohomish County · listed in 1987 · category: Structure · built in 1938.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Miners Ridge Lookout
Built in 1938. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Darrington Ranger District in Glacier Peak Wilderness area 5 mi. W of Pacific Crest trail, Darrington, 98241
- When was it listed? July 1987
- Category. structure
- Also known as. USDA Forest Service Fire Lookouts on Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest TR
- Census division. Darrington
- When was it built? 1938
- National Register reference number. 87001183 - 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
26 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Miners Ridge Lookout between 1997 and 2018, burning about 1,140 acres in total. 24 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 24 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 September 2014 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest | PCT TRAIL |
| 8 August 2008 | Natural | under an acre | Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest | GAMMA |
| 8 August 2008 | Natural | under an acre | Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest | MINERS RIDGE |
| 8 August 2008 | Natural | under an acre | Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest | CANYON CREEK 2 |
| 8 August 2008 | Natural | under an acre | Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest | SULPHER RIDGE |
| 6 August 1999 | Natural | 15 acres | Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest | FLOWER DOME |
| 29 August 2003 | Natural | 254 acres | Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest | DOME CREEK |
| 20 August 1997 | Natural | under an acre | Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest | CANYON CREEK |
Mines and quarries near this property
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Miners Ridge Lookout: 3 occurrences, 1 producer, 1 prospect, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Geothermal, Molybdenum, Copper, Tungsten, Silver, Gold, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deerfly | Lead, Gold, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Deerfly Prospect | Gold, Copper, Zinc, Lead, Silver | Occurrence | Chalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite | |
| Fortress Mountain | Copper, Molybdenum | Occurrence | Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Covellite, Malachite, Molybdenite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite | |
| Gamma Hot Springs | Geothermal | Producer | ||
| Glacier Peak | Molybdenum, Copper, Tungsten, Silver, Gold | Prospect | 1900 | |
| Sulphur Creek | Sulfur | Occurrence |
Storms near this property
1 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Darrington, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2005: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Darrington | - | Several trees were downed over State Route 530 and a hiker near the area reported "giant" hail. |
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 87001183 in Record Group 79. |
| Snohomish County | All 52 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.