Sunrise Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

“The Sunrise Historic District, also known as the community of Sunrise, Washington, is located at approximately 6,400 feet (2,000 m) on a ridge overlooking the northeast side of Mount Rainier in Mount Rainier National Park. The district comprises seven individual structures designed in accordance with the principles of the National Park Service Rustic style.”
Wikipedia article Sunrise 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, Sunrise, 98304
When was it listed? March 1991
Category. district
Also known as. Mt. Rainier National Park MPS
Census division. Mount Rainier
Architectural style. National Park Service rustic, rustic architecture
National Register reference number. 91000175 - 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

37 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Sunrise Historic District between 1992 and 2018, burning about 349 acres in total. 33 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	33
Recreation and ceremony	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2

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
1 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Mount Rainier National Park	MARCUS
6 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Mount Rainier National Park	WHITE
5 August 2003	Natural	310 acres	Mount Rainier National Park	REDSTONE3
3 August 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Mount Rainier National Park	WHITERIVER
3 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Mount Rainier National Park	COLD BASIN
3 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Mount Rainier National Park	GRAND
3 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Mount Rainier National Park	ELK RIDGE
3 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Mount Rainier National Park	SCARFACE

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Sunrise Historic District: 1 past producer, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Gold. 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
	Black Hawk	Gold	Unknown
	Starbonit	Copper	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
Yakima Park Stockade Group	under 500 feet	1987
White River Patrol Cabin	0.8 miles	1991
Sunrise Comfort Station	0.9 miles	1991
White River Bridge	1.6 miles	1991
Mt. Fremont Fire Lookout	2.1 miles	1991
Summerland Trail Shelter	3.5 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91000175 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.