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Fish and Game-Hozomeen Cabin

Built in 1930. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

From the record

One of 74 National Register listings published here for Whatcom County · listed in 1989 · category: Building · built in 1930.

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 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Fish and Game--Hozomeen Cabin - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Hozomeen Lake--Lightening Creek trailhead on E side of Ross Lake, Hozomeen
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? 1930
National Register reference number. 88003454 - 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 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Fish and Game-Hozomeen Cabin between 1995 and 2015, burning about 1,163 acres in total. 13 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	13
Recreation and ceremony	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
12 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	North Cascades National Park	INTER CAMP
5 August 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	North Cascades National Park	LOOP FIRE
5 August 2006	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	North Cascades National Park	RAW
4 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	North Cascades National Park	JACK POINT
4 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	North Cascades National Park	LITTLEJACK
4 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	North Cascades National Park	HANGING
27 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	North Cascades National Park	STARVATION
26 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	North Cascades National Park	JACKSADDLE

Every fire recorded in Whatcom County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Fish and Game-Hozomeen Cabin: 2 occurrences, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Gold, Molybdenum, Silver, Tungsten, Molybdenum. 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
Davis Prospect	Molybdenum, Silver, Gold, Copper	Prospect
Silver Creek Prospect	Copper, Gold, Molybdenum, Silver, Tungsten	Occurrence	1913
Upper Lightning Creek	Gold, Silver, Molybdenum, Lead, Copper	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

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
International Boundary US-Canada	2.4 miles	1989
Desolation Peak Lookout	5.7 miles	1989
Perry Creek Shelter	5.9 miles	1989
Deer Lick Cabin	7.2 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88003454 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.