Gobbler's Knob Fire Lookout

Built in 1933 (rustic architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

“The Gobbler's Knob Fire Lookout is a fire lookout tower in the extreme western region of Mount Rainier National Park at an elevation of 5,485 feet (1,672 m). One of four fire lookouts remaining in the park, the lookout is used for visitor services during summer weekends.”
Wikipedia article Gobbler's Knob Fire Lookout, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 215 National Register listings published here for Pierce County · listed in 1991 · category: Building · built in 1933, rustic architecture, by http://www.wikidata.org/.well-known/genid/1e78f6e142b694150b3db8d44446422d.

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, 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? 1933
Architectural style. rustic architecture
Architect. http://www.wikidata.org/.well-known/genid/1e78f6e142b694150b3db8d44446422d
National Register reference number. 91000191 - 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

18 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Gobbler's Knob Fire Lookout between 1994 and 2020, burning about 7 acres in total. 3 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	6
Smoking	4
Natural	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Debris and open burning	1
Other causes	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
4 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	SKATE CREEK ROAD
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
9 August 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Gifford Pinchot National Forest	BERRY CREEK
9 August 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Gifford Pinchot National Forest	COPPER CREEK
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
27 August 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Gifford Pinchot National Forest	59 ROAD

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Gobbler's Knob Fire Lookout: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
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	0.5 miles	1991
South Puyallup River Bridge	1.4 miles	1991
Tahoma Vista Comfort Station	1.5 miles	1991
St. Andrews Creek Bridge	2.9 miles	1991
St. Andrews Patrol Cabin	2.9 miles	1991
Indian Henry's Patrol Cabin	3.5 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91000191 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.