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Photograph of Beaver Pass Shelter
Photograph by National Park Service, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Beaver Pass Shelter

Built in 1938. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

From the record

“The Beaver Pass Shelter is in North Cascades National Park, in the U.S. state of Washington. Constructed by the United States Forest Service in 1938, the shelter was inherited by the National Park Service when North Cascades National Park was dedicated in 1968.”

Wikipedia article Beaver Pass Shelter, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 74 National Register listings published here for Whatcom County · listed in 1989 · category: Building · built in 1938.

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.
  • Address. Beaver Pass, 14 mi. W of Ross Lake, Diablo, 98283
  • When was it listed? February 1989
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. North Cascades National Park Service Complex MRA
  • Census division. East Whatcom
  • When was it built? 1938
  • National Register reference number. 88003448 - 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 Beaver Pass Shelter between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1,500 acres in total. 12 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
Natural12

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
7 September 2003Naturalunder an acreNorth Cascades National ParkLUNA
8 August 2008Natural144 acresNorth Cascades National ParkARCTIC
6 August 2018Natural3.0 acresNorth Cascades National ParkPROPHET
6 August 2018Natural880 acresNorth Cascades National ParkARCTIC JIM
30 August 1992Natural10 acresNorth Cascades National ParkBEAVERPASS
17 August 2004Natural1.0 acresNorth Cascades National ParkMAX PEAK
17 August 2004Naturalunder an acreNorth Cascades National ParkMOX
17 August 1997Natural3.0 acresNorth Cascades National ParkLUNA

Every fire recorded in Whatcom County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Beaver Pass Shelter: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Silver, Chromium. 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
James T. Sullivan ProspectCopper, Silver, ChromiumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Whatcom County

Storms near this property

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Diablo, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2010: 1 flood. 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
December 2010FloodDiablo$100,000Parts of Highway 20 between Newhalem and Diablo were washed away by heavy rain and flooding.

Every storm 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Perry Creek Shelter5.4 miles1989

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 88003448 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Whatcom CountyAll 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.
  • 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.