Park Butte Lookout

Built in 1932. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

One of 74 National Register listings published here for Whatcom County · listed in 1987 · category: Structure · built in 1932.

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. Mt. Baker Ranger District, SW of the Easton Glacier of Mt. Baker, Sedro Wooley, 98244
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. East Whatcom
When was it built? 1932
National Register reference number. 87001189 - 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

12 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Park Butte Lookout between 1992 and 2013, burning about 78 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
Natural	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
11 September 1993	Natural	under an acre	Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest	not named
7 August 2004	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest	PANORAMA PT CAMPGRND
27 August 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13 acres	Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest	not named
25 August 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest	HORSE CORAL
23 August 1998	Natural	under an acre	Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest	HELITROP
10 August 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest	ANDERSON POINT
26 July 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest	not named
25 July 2004	Natural	61 acres	Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest	SURVEY POINT

Every fire recorded in Whatcom County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 35 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 35 workings within 5 miles of Park Butte Lookout: 16 occurrences, 9 unknowns, 5 past producers, 5 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Chromium, Gold, Copper, Zinc. 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	Recorded
Hildebrand Lake Group	Arsenic, Chromium, Iron	Occurrence	1934
Loomis Mountain	Copper, Zinc	Prospect
Ribbon Claim	Chromium, Arsenic	Past Producer	1934
Ridley Creek Deposit	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Rose Placer	Gold	Prospect
Twin Sisters Mountain Olivine Dep.	Magnesite	Occurrence
Bumper Claim	Chromium	Occurrence
Button	Chromium	Unknown
Danny	Chromium	Past Producer	1931, 1934
Danny	Chromium	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Whatcom 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.

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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Koma Kulshan Ranger Station	7.5 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87001189 in Record Group 79.
Whatcom County	All 74 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.