St. Andrews Patrol Cabin

Built in 1922 (National Park Service rustic). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

“Andrews Patrol Cabin was built by the National Park Service in 1922 as part of a network of stations near the boundaries of Mount Rainier National Park for rangers on patrol. The one-room log structure stands along St.”
Wikipedia article St. Andrews 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 1922, National Park Service rustic, by http://www.wikidata.org/.well-known/genid/ce37d0b739180f80e60caca33c83c445.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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, Nisqually Entrance, 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? 1922
Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
Architect. http://www.wikidata.org/.well-known/genid/ce37d0b739180f80e60caca33c83c445
National Register reference number. 91000188 - 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

9 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of St. Andrews Patrol Cabin between 1992 and 2019, burning about 3 acres in total. 5 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	5
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	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
21 September 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Gifford Pinchot National Forest	COPPER
6 August 2006	Smoking	1.5 acres	Gifford Pinchot National Forest	GLACIER VIEW
28 August 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Gifford Pinchot National Forest	HUCKLEBERRY
25 August 2003	Natural	1.0 acres	Gifford Pinchot National Forest	COPPER CREEK
2 August 2014	Natural	under an acre	Gifford Pinchot National Forest	CHRISTINE
13 August 2014	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	26 MILE LIGHTNING
12 August 1992	Natural	under an acre	Mount Rainier National Park	SUNSET
11 August 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Gifford Pinchot National Forest	COPPER CREEK

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
St. Andrews Creek Bridge	under 500 feet	1991
South Puyallup River Bridge	2.0 miles	1991
Gobbler's Knob Fire Lookout	2.9 miles	1991
Lake George Patrol Cabin	3.0 miles	1991
Tahoma Vista Comfort Station	3.0 miles	1991
Sunset Park Patrol Cabin	3.2 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91000188 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.