Stevens Pass Guard Station

Built in 1936. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

One of 46 National Register listings published here for Chelan County · listed in 1991 · category: Building · built in 1936.

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.
Address. I-2 at Stevens Pass, Skykomish, 98826
When was it listed? March 1991
Category. building
Also known as. USDA Forest Service Administrative Buildings in Oregon and Washington Built by the CCC MPS
Census division. Leavenworth-Lake Wenatchee
When was it built? 1936
National Register reference number. 91000156 - 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

44 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Stevens Pass Guard Station between 1996 and 2018, burning about 94 acres in total. 25 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
Natural	25
Recreation and ceremony	10
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Smoking	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Other causes	1
Firearms and explosives use	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
26 September 2012	Natural	under an acre	Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest	UPPER WHITE
25 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
20 September 2003	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest	CHIEF TRAIL
16 September 2012	Natural	under an acre	Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest	MULE
13 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
12 September 2012	Natural	under an acre	Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest	HENRY CREEK
1 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest	MARTIN
9 August 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest	STRAW

Every fire recorded in Chelan 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 Stevens Pass Guard Station: 1 producer, 1 unknown, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Geothermal. 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
Scenic Hot Springs	Geothermal	Producer
Dept of Highways	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Chelan 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91000156 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.