Indian Henry's Patrol Cabin

Built in 1916 (rustic architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

“Indian Henry's Patrol Cabin is an early National Park Service patrol cabin in Mount Rainier National Park. The cabin was built in 1915-1916 at an elevation of 5,300 feet (1,600 m) in an area of the park known as "Indian Henry's Hunting Ground," which had been used in the 19th century by the Cowlitz and Nisqually tribes.”
Wikipedia article Indian Henry's Patrol Cabin, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 215 National Register listings published here for Pierce County · listed in 1991 · category: Building · built in 1916, rustic architecture, by http://www.wikidata.org/.well-known/genid/2174ad96002458384676c818d4f0ee51.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Mt. Rainier National Park, Longmire, 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? 1916
Architectural style. rustic architecture
Architect. http://www.wikidata.org/.well-known/genid/2174ad96002458384676c818d4f0ee51
National Register reference number. 91000180 - 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

28 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Indian Henry's Patrol Cabin between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4 acres in total. 7 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
Recreation and ceremony	16
Natural	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Smoking	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
23 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Mount Rainier National Park	NISQUALLY FIRE
9 August 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Gifford Pinchot National Forest	BERRY CREEK
3 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Mount Rainier National Park	VISTA
28 August 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Gifford Pinchot National Forest	BERRY CREEK
27 August 2000	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Mount Rainier National Park	B23
26 August 1994	Smoking	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
25 August 2010	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Gifford Pinchot National Forest	BERRY CREEK
25 August 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Mount Rainier National Park	VANTRUMP1

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Indian Henry's Patrol Cabin: 4 past producers, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Geothermal, Arsenic, Tungsten, Gold, Silver, Cobalt, Uranium, Copper. 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
Eagle Peak	Tungsten, Gold, Silver, Cobalt, Uranium, Copper	Occurrence	Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Linnaeite, Molybdenite, Scheelite, Sphalerite
Eagle Peak	Copper, Uranium, Silver, Gold, Cobalt	Past Producer
Eagle Peak Mine	Copper, Cobalt, Silver, Gold, Tungsten, Zinc, Molybdenum, Uranium, Arsenic	Past Producer	Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Covellite, Linnaeite, Molybdenite, Pyrite, Scheelite, Sphalerite
Longmire Hot Springs	Geothermal	Producer
Paradise Prospect	Copper, Arsenic	Past Producer	Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Pyrite
Paradise	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
Tahoma Vista Comfort Station	2.0 miles	1991
South Puyallup River Bridge	2.6 miles	1991
Lake George Patrol Cabin	3.0 miles	1991
Christine Falls Bridge	3.0 miles	1991
Longmire Historic District	3.4 miles	1991
Longmire Buildings	3.4 miles	1987

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91000180 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.