North Bend Ranger Station

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

From the record

“The North Bend Ranger Station is a collection of buildings operated by the USDA Forest Service in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest. Constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in 1936, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.”
Wikipedia article North Bend Ranger Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 324 National Register listings published here for King County · listed in 1991 · category: District · built in 1936.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 9 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. 42404 SE. North Bend Way, North Bend, 98045
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. Snoqualmie Valley
When was it built? 1936
National Register reference number. 91000157 - 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

20 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of North Bend Ranger Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 12 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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
Recreation and ceremony	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Fireworks	4
Arson/incendiarism	2
Natural	1
Debris and open burning	1
Equipment and vehicle 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
9 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	RAGING RIVER
27 September 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	LITTLE SI
11 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
17 August 2008	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	WASHINGTON MONUMENT
15 August 2017	Fireworks	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	STORMWATER POND
5 July 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	LITTLE ERNIE
4 July 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	WINERY
4 July 2009	Fireworks	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	LITTLE SI FIREWORKS

Every fire recorded in King County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 25 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of North Bend Ranger Station: 18 past producers, 5 unknowns, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Gold, Stone, Dimension. 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
Annie	Copper, Gold, Silver	Unknown
Bald Hornet	Iron	Unknown
Leta	Gold, Silver, Copper	Unknown
Camp Brown Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Past Producer
Mainline 100 Pit	Stone, Dimension	Past Producer
Stoen North Bend Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Cleveland	Copper, Gold	Unknown
Legal Tender	Gold, Copper	Unknown
Mount Si	Copper	Occurrence	Chalcopyrite, Pyrite

Every working recorded in King 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

6 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
Si View Park	0.5 miles	2015
McGrath Cafe and Hotel-The McGrath	0.7 miles	2002
Norman Bridge	1.8 miles	1994
Camp North Bend	2.3 miles	1993
Messenger of Peace Chapel Car	2.6 miles	2009
Snoqualmie Depot	3.6 miles	1974

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91000157 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
King County	All 324 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.