Nisqually Entrance Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

“The Nisqually Entrance Historic District comprises the first public entrance to Mount Rainier National Park. The district incorporates the log entrance arch typical of all Mount Rainier entrances, a log frame ranger station and checking station, a comfort station and miscellaneous service structures, all built around 1926, as well as the 1915 Superintendent's Residence and the 1908 Oscar Brown Cabin, the oldest remaining structure in the park.”
Wikipedia article Nisqually Entrance Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 215 National Register listings published here for Pierce County · listed in 1991 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Mt. Rainier National Park, Nisqually Entrance, 98304
When was it listed? March 1991
Category. district
Also known as. Mt. Rainier National Park MPS
Census division. Mount Rainier
Architectural style. rustic architecture
Architect. http://www.wikidata.org/.well-known/genid/a2db0ba52fc0ab9a9c81a4d55225b7fe
National Register reference number. 91000172 - 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

46 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Nisqually Entrance Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 10 acres in total. 4 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	23
Smoking	7
Natural	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Fireworks	2
Debris and open burning	2
Other causes	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	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Gifford Pinchot National Forest	CORA LAKE 2
8 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Gifford Pinchot National Forest	GRANITE LAKE
4 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	SKATE CREEK ROAD
25 September 1994	Smoking	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
21 September 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Gifford Pinchot National Forest	COPPER
2 September 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	SKATE CREEK
15 September 2006	Smoking	under an acre	Gifford Pinchot National Forest	CORA
14 September 2014	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Gifford Pinchot National Forest	CORA

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Nisqually Entrance Historic District: 3 past producers, 1 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
Longmire Hot Springs	Geothermal	Producer
Hall Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Messler Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Pierce 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
Lake George Patrol Cabin	3.7 miles	1991
Gobbler's Knob Fire Lookout	3.7 miles	1991
Peter L. and Emma Hershey Homestead	3.8 miles	2007
Tahoma Vista Comfort Station	4.1 miles	1991
South Puyallup River Bridge	4.8 miles	1991
Longmire Campground Comfort Station No. L-304	4.9 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91000172 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Pierce County	All 215 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.