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Photograph of Green Mountain Lookout
Photograph by ECTran71, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Green Mountain Lookout

Built in 1933. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“The Green Mountain Lookout is a historic fire lookout tower located at the summit of Green Mountain in the Glacier Peak Wilderness and the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest in Snohomish County, Washington. The single-story wood-frame structure measures 14 by 14 feet and was built according to a standard National Forest Service design in 1933 by the Civilian Conservation Corps.”

Wikipedia article Green Mountain Lookout, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 52 National Register listings published here for Snohomish County · listed in 1988 · category: Building · built in 1933.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
  • Address. Darrington Ranger District, Darrington, 98241
  • When was it listed? February 1988
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. USDA Forest Service Fire Lookouts on Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest TR
  • Census division. Darrington
  • When was it built? 1933
  • National Register reference number. 88000117 - 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

25 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Green Mountain Lookout between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,474 acres in total. 20 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
Natural20
Recreation and ceremony4
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
21 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMt. Baker-Snoqualmie National ForestSUIATTLE RIVER
7 August 1999Naturalunder an acreMt. Baker-Snoqualmie National ForestNAPOLEAN GREEN MTN.
6 August 2003Naturalunder an acreMt. Baker-Snoqualmie National ForestBOX MT #2
6 August 2003Naturalunder an acreMt. Baker-Snoqualmie National ForestBOX MT #1
6 August 2003Natural5.0 acresMt. Baker-Snoqualmie National ForestBUCKINDY
27 August 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMt. Baker-Snoqualmie National ForestRED MOUNTAIN
17 August 2018Natural75 acresMt. Baker-Snoqualmie National ForestDOWNEY
16 August 2020Natural3,166 acresMt. Baker-Snoqualmie National ForestDOWNEY CREEK

Every fire recorded in Snohomish 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 Green Mountain Lookout: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Geothermal, Copper, Molybdenum, Tungsten, Silver. 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
BuckindyCopper, Molybdenum, Tungsten, SilverOccurrenceChalcopyrite, Molybdenite, Pyrite, Scheelite
Sulphur Creek Hot SpringsGeothermalOccurrence

Every working recorded in Snohomish County

Storms near this property

1 since 2005

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2005Thunderstorm WindDarrington-Several trees were downed over State Route 530 and a hiker near the area reported "giant" hail.

Every storm 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.

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 PropertyDistance Listed
Suiattle Guard Station4.2 miles1990

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 88000117 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.
  • 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.