BlockFrom the record
One of 52 National Register listings published here for Snohomish County · listed in 1991 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Darrington Ranger Station
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.
The listing
- Address. 1405 Emmens St., Darrington, 98241
- When was it listed? March 1991
- Category. district
- Also known as. USDA Forest Service Administrative Buildings in Oregon and Washington Built by the CCC MPS
- Census division. Darrington
- National Register reference number. 91000155 - 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
35 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Darrington Ranger Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 250 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 5 were 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 | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 1994 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 28 September 1992 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 15 September 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest | 2140 |
| 1 September 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest | TWIN BRIDGES |
| 30 August 2020 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | 530 YARD |
| 28 August 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | BARCO PIT |
| 28 August 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest | BURNS CREEK |
| 20 August 2017 | Smoking | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | CLEAR CREEK |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 64 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 64 workings within 5 miles of Darrington Ranger Station: 32 occurrences, 21 prospects, 7 unknowns, 3 past producers. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Gold, Silver, Copper, Silver. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Bird | Gold, Copper, Nickel, Silver | Occurrence | ||
| Courtney | Copper, Lead, Silver, Gold | Prospect | ||
| Courtney Mine | Gold, Lead, Copper, Silver | Occurrence | ||
| Darrington | Iron | Prospect | ||
| Darrington | Feldspar | Occurrence | ||
| Feldt | Silver, Antimony, Gold, Lead, Zinc | Prospect | ||
| Feldt Prospect | Copper, Gold, Zinc, Lead, Silver, Antimony, Arsenic, Cobalt | Occurrence | Chalcopyrite, Cobaltite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite, Stibnite, Tetrahedrite | |
| Forest Hope | Silver, Gold, Copper, Mercury | Occurrence | Cinnabar, Mercury | |
| Gold Hill | Lead, Zinc, Copper | Unknown | ||
| Gold Hill Quarry | Stone | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
1 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Darrington, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2005: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Darrington | - | Several trees were downed over State Route 530 and a hiker near the area reported "giant" hail. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Three Fingers Lookout | 7.4 miles | 1987 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 91000155 in Record Group 79. |
| Snohomish County | All 52 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.