Gilbert's Cabin

Built in 1894. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

From the record

“Gilbert's Cabin is in North Cascades National Park, in the U.S. state of Washington. Constructed by a private citizen named Gilbert Landre, the cabin was intended as a private residence and is located at the site where Landre may have built an earlier cabin in 1888.”
Wikipedia article Gilbert's Cabin, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 33 National Register listings published here for Skagit County · listed in 1989 · category: Site · built in 1894.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. Cascade River Rd. W of Gilbert Creek, Stehekin
When was it listed? February 1989
Category. site
Also known as. North Cascades National Park Service Complex MRA
Census division. East Skagit
When was it built? 1894
National Register reference number. 88003453 - 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

11 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Gilbert's Cabin between 1992 and 2019, burning about 3,663 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
Natural	8
Debris and open burning	2
Recreation and ceremony	1

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
14 September 2013	Natural	5.0 acres	North Cascades National Park	ELODORADO
1 September 2003	Natural	1.0 acres	Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest	SONNY JIM
5 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	North Cascades National Park	HIDDENLAKE
4 August 2018	Natural	under an acre	Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest	SONNY BOY CREEK
25 August 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	North Cascades National Park	CASCADERD
2 August 2009	Natural	under an acre	Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest	HIDDEN LAKE
15 August 2003	Natural	3,654 acres	Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest	MINERAL PARK
30 July 2009	Natural	2.0 acres	North Cascades National Park	CASCADE

Every fire recorded in Skagit County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 87 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 87 workings within 5 miles of Gilbert's Cabin: 46 occurrences, 22 prospects, 10 past producers, 9 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silver, Lead, Gold, Copper. 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
Alta	Lead, Zinc, Silver	Unknown
Black Warrior Prospect	Gold, Zinc, Lead, Silver, Copper	Occurrence	1889
Black Warrior Mine	Copper, Silver, Lead, Gold, Zinc	Prospect
Boston Claims	Zinc, Silver, Lead, Gold, Arsenic, Copper	Past Producer	1895
Cascade Consolidated Prospect	Silver, Zinc, Lead, Gold	Unknown
Cerrico Claim	Zinc, Lead, Arsenic	Occurrence	Galena, Sphalerite
Chicago	Lead, Zinc, Gold, Silver	Occurrence
Chicago Claims	Silver, Zinc, Lead, Arsenic, Gold	Occurrence	Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Cutthroat	Cobalt	Occurrence
Davenport Mine	Silver, Zinc, Lead, Gold, Copper	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Skagit 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

4 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
Hidden Lake Peak Lookout	5.3 miles	1987
Swamp-Meadow Cabin East	7.0 miles	1989
Swamp-Meadow Cabin West	7.0 miles	1989
Rock Cabin	7.5 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88003453 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Skagit County	All 33 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.