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Photograph of Evergreen Mountain Lookout
Photograph by Unknown, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Evergreen Mountain Lookout

Built in 1935. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

One of 52 National Register listings published here for Snohomish County · listed in 1987 · category: Structure · built in 1935.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Skykomish Ranger District on SW ridgecrest of Evergreen Mountain, Skykomish
  • 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. Sultan
  • When was it built? 1935
  • National Register reference number. 87001187 - 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

21 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Evergreen Mountain Lookout between 1994 and 2019, burning about 57 acres in total. 8 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 ceremony9
Natural8
Fireworks3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
8 September 2019Naturalunder an acreMt. Baker-Snoqualmie National ForestSAN JUAN
1 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMt. Baker-Snoqualmie National ForestGARLAND JUNCTION
5 August 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMt. Baker-Snoqualmie National ForestDUST
4 August 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMt. Baker-Snoqualmie National ForestTYE RIVER
3 August 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMt. Baker-Snoqualmie National ForestBECKLER RIVER
3 August 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forestnot named
26 August 2009Natural1.4 acresMt. Baker-Snoqualmie National ForestMEADOW CREEK
21 August 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMt. Baker-Snoqualmie National ForestBECKLER BOWL

Every fire recorded in Snohomish County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Evergreen Mountain Lookout: 2 occurrences, 1 prospect, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Zinc, Silver, 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
Beckler RiverCopper, Silver, GoldUnknown
Copper Knob GroupZinc, CopperProspect
Olympic PlacerGoldOccurrence
Olympic PlacerGoldOccurrence

Every working recorded in Snohomish 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 87001187 in Record Group 79.
Snohomish CountyAll 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.