BlockFrom the record
One of 46 National Register listings published here for Chelan County · listed in 1990 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Tyee Mountain Lookout
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Summit of Tyee Mountain, Entait, 98822
- When was it listed? December 1990
- Category. building
- Also known as. USDA Forest Service Fire Lookouts on Wenatchee NF MPS
- Census division. Entiat
- National Register reference number. 90001913 - 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
47 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Tyee Mountain Lookout between 1992 and 2019, burning about 42,940 acres in total. 31 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 | 31 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest | WINDY |
| 4 September 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest | WINDY RIDGE |
| 4 September 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest | GRANDMA CREEK |
| 26 September 1992 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest | not named |
| 13 September 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest | SIGNAL PEAK |
| 12 September 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest | GRANDMA CREE |
| 11 September 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 4 August 1994 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 11 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Tyee Mountain Lookout: 5 past producers, 4 prospects, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Pumice, Gold, Platinum. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mad Creek | Gold, Platinum | Occurrence | Placer | |
| Asher and Fouts Pit | Pumice | Past Producer | ||
| Conklin | Pumice | Past Producer | ||
| Entiat Valley No. 43 | Pumice | Prospect | ||
| Entiat Valley No. 44 | Pumice | Prospect | ||
| Entiat Valley No. 45 | Pumice | Prospect | ||
| Entiat Valley No. 46 | Pumice | Prospect | ||
| Entiat Valley No. 47 | Pumice | Occurrence | ||
| Harris Pit | Pumice | Past Producer | ||
| Nichol Pit | Pumice | Past Producer |
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 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sugarloaf Peak Lookout | 7.9 miles | 1990 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 90001913 in Record Group 79. |
| Chelan County | All 46 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.