Indian Bar Trail Shelter

Built in 1940. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

One of 215 National Register listings published here for Pierce County · listed in 1991 · category: Building · built in 1940, by National Park Service.

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. Mt. Rainier National Park, Paradise, 98304
When was it listed? March 1991
Category. building
Also known as. Mt. Rainier National Park MPS
Census division. Mount Rainier
When was it built? 1940
Architect. National Park Service
National Register reference number. 91000179 - 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

21 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Indian Bar Trail Shelter between 1994 and 2018, burning about 30 acres in total. 20 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	20
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
15 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Mount Rainier National Park	COWLITZ DIVIDE FIRE
9 August 2018	Natural	5.0 acres	Mount Rainier National Park	COWLITZ PEAK FIRE
6 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Mount Rainier National Park	WHITE
5 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Mount Rainier National Park	NICKEL
3 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Mount Rainier National Park	MAZAMA
28 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	Mount Rainier National Park	BOULDER2
28 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	Mount Rainier National Park	BOULDER1
16 August 2004	Natural	under an acre	Mount Rainier National Park	BALDDIVIDE

Every fire 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
Summerland Trail Shelter	2.9 miles	1991
Camp Muir	4.4 miles	1991
Edith Creek Chlorination House	4.9 miles	1991
White River Bridge	5.1 miles	1991
Paradise Inn	5.2 miles	1987
Shriner Peak Fire Lookout	5.2 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91000179 in Record Group 79.
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.