Yakima Park Stockade Group

A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1930 (National Park Service rustic). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“The Yakima Park Stockade Group, also known as North and South Blockhouses and Stockade at Sunrise, is a building complex consisting of four log buildings at the Sunrise Visitors Center area in the northeast part of Mount Rainier National Park. The complex is architecturally significant as a particularly fine example of rustic frontier log architecture.”
Wikipedia article Yakima Park Stockade Group, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 215 National Register listings published here for Pierce County · listed in 1987 · category: District · built in 1930, National Park Service rustic, by Ernest A. Davidson, Thomas Chalmers Vint, National Park Service · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

National Historic Landmark. The highest federal designation, held by about 2,600 places in the country against roughly 100,000 Register listings.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss, 1 site, 1 structure, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. Sunrise (Yakima Park), Mount Rainier National Park, 98304
When was it listed? May 1987
Category. district
Census division. Mount Rainier
When was it built? 1930
Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
Architect. Ernest A. Davidson, Thomas Chalmers Vint, National Park Service
National Register reference number. 87001337 - 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

37 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Yakima Park Stockade Group between 1992 and 2018, burning about 349 acres in total. 33 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	33
Recreation and ceremony	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
1 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Mount Rainier National Park	MARCUS
6 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Mount Rainier National Park	WHITE
5 August 2003	Natural	310 acres	Mount Rainier National Park	REDSTONE3
3 August 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Mount Rainier National Park	WHITERIVER
3 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Mount Rainier National Park	COLD BASIN
3 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Mount Rainier National Park	GRAND
3 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Mount Rainier National Park	ELK RIDGE
3 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Mount Rainier National Park	SCARFACE

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Yakima Park Stockade Group: 1 past producer, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Black Hawk	Gold	Unknown
	Starbonit	Copper	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Pierce 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

6 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Sunrise Historic District	under 500 feet	1991
Sunrise Comfort Station	0.8 miles	1991
White River Patrol Cabin	0.8 miles	1991
White River Bridge	1.6 miles	1991
Mt. Fremont Fire Lookout	2.0 miles	1991
Summerland Trail Shelter	3.5 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87001337 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Pierce County	All 215 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.