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One of 46 National Register listings published here for Chelan County · listed in 1991 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Lucerne Guard Station
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. S shore of Lake Chelan, Wenatchee NF, Lucerne, 98816
- 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. Stehekin
- National Register reference number. 91000160 - 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
41 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Lucerne Guard Station between 1992 and 2018, burning about 135,045 acres in total. 35 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 | 35 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 1995 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest | REX CREEK |
| 23 September 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest | MEADOW CREEK |
| 21 September 2004 | Debris and open burning | 17 acres | Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest | REX 2 |
| 7 August 1997 | Natural | under an acre | Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest | BEAR CREEK |
| 6 August 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest | BEAR CREEK |
| 5 August 2007 | Natural | 11,791 acres | Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest | DOMKE |
| 5 August 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest | LUCERNE |
| 4 August 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest | RATTLESNAKE |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 37 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 37 workings within 5 miles of Lucerne Guard Station: 19 prospects, 9 unknowns, 6 occurrences, 2 past producers. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Silver, Copper, Gold, Gold, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bismarck | Zinc, Copper, Arsenic | Prospect | ||
| Blue Jay | Copper, Cobalt, Silver, Gold | Prospect | ||
| Getty Antimony Property | Antimony | Prospect | ||
| King Solomon | Copper, Cobalt, Gold, Silver, Zinc | Prospect | ||
| Little Jap | Silver, Copper, Antimony, Gold | Occurrence | Chalcopyrite, Pyrargyrite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite | |
| Moscow | Copper, Arsenic, Silver, Gold | Prospect | ||
| Muriel Ann | Graphite, Titanium | Prospect | ||
| Nebraska | Copper, Lead, Gold, Silver | Prospect | ||
| Orphan Boy | Silver, Zinc, Lead, Gold, Arsenic | Unknown | ||
| Orphan Boy Prospect | Zinc, Silver, Lead, Antimony, Arsenic, Gold | Occurrence | Galena, Pyrargyrite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Sphalerite |
Storms near this property
1 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lucerne, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2015: 1 debris flow. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2015 | Debris Flow | Lucerne | - | The Forest service reported water and rock/mud over 8301 road between Lucerne and Holden, WA. |
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
3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Flick Creek Shelter | 5.3 miles | 1989 |
 | Purple Point-Stehekin Ranger Station House | 7.9 miles | 1989 |
 | Golden West Lodge Historic District | 7.9 miles | 1989 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 91000160 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.
- 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.