BlockFrom the record
One of 12 National Register listings published here for Douglas County · listed in 1990 · category: Building · built in 1941.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Badger Mountain Lookout
Built in 1941. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Near summit of Badger Mountain, East Wenatchee, 98802
- When was it listed? December 1990
- Category. building
- Also known as. USDA Forest Service Fire Lookouts on Wenatchee NF MPS
- Census division. East Wenatchee
- When was it built? 1941
- National Register reference number. 90001915 - 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
21 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Badger Mountain Lookout between 1992 and 2020, burning about 21,256 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 4 September 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | 107 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | SWAKANE |
| 25 August 1996 | Recreation and ceremony | 10 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 19 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | TURTLE ROCK |
| 19 August 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | Spokane District | HIGHWAY |
| 8 July 2008 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 15,023 acres | Spokane District | BADGER MT |
| 5 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 634 acres | Spokane District | MITCHELL |
| 24 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 717 acres | Spokane District | TURTLE ROCK |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 20 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Badger Mountain Lookout: 15 past producers, 5 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Aluminum, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Batterman Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Starnose | Limestone, General | Past Producer | ||
| Wenatchee Clay Mine | Clay, Aluminum | Past Producer | ||
| Mcdonald Mine Clay Deposit | Aluminum | Past Producer | ||
| Boyles | Silica | Occurrence | ||
| Gladding Mcbean | Silica | Occurrence | ||
| Gladding, Mcbean & Co. | Silica | Occurrence | ||
| Pinnacle | Silica | Occurrence | ||
| Spring | Silica | Occurrence | ||
| Barnhill Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
4 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Wenatchee, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2004 and 2017: 1 tornado, 1 hail, 1 flood, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2016 | Flood | East Wenatchee | $2,000 | Law enforcement reported two residents in the area that reported minor flooding of their property and homes 3 miles east southeast of Wenatchee, Washington. The extend of flooding or damage is unknown at this time of entry. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Wenatchee | - | A thunderstorm wind gust lofted a glass table top and shattered it near East Wenatchee. |
| May 2004 | Tornado (F0) | East Wenatchee | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | East Wenatchee | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Pangborn-Herndon Memorial Site | 4.9 miles | 1972 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 90001915 in Record Group 79. |
| Douglas County | All 12 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.