Shriner Peak Fire Lookout

Built in 1932 (rustic architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

“The Shriner Peak Fire Lookout is a fire lookout tower in Mount Rainier National Park. Built in 1932 to a standard design by the National Park Service Branch of Plans and Designs, the wood-frame lookout features a ground-floor storage room and an upper-level lookout and living space with windows on all four sides.”
Wikipedia article Shriner Peak 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 1932, rustic architecture, by http://www.wikidata.org/.well-known/genid/6041b4ac1c9a809b3e1ff486e6f2c1cb.

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, Ohanapecosh, 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? 1932
Architectural style. rustic architecture
Architect. http://www.wikidata.org/.well-known/genid/6041b4ac1c9a809b3e1ff486e6f2c1cb
National Register reference number. 91000194 - 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 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Shriner Peak Fire Lookout between 1994 and 2018, burning about 75 acres in total. 21 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	21
Recreation and ceremony	6
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
6 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest	PACIFIC CREST
3 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Mount Rainier National Park	HIWAY 123
20 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest	AMERICA RIVER
15 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Mount Rainier National Park	COWLITZ DIVIDE FIRE
14 September 2012	Natural	7.0 acres	Mount Rainier National Park	THREE LAKES FIRE
14 September 2012	Natural	under an acre	Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest	DEWEY LAKE
10 September 2014	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest	DEWEY LAKE
10 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Mount Rainier National Park	SEYMOURPK

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 Shriner Peak Fire Lookout: 1 prospect, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silver, Antimony, 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
	Alpine 1 and 2	Antimony, Silver	Prospect
	Nettie K.	Gold, Silver	Occurrence

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
Tipsoo Lake Comfort Station	3.9 miles	1991
Chinook Pass Entrance Arch	4.1 miles	1991
Indian Bar Trail Shelter	5.2 miles	1991
White River Entrance	6.2 miles	1991
White River Mess Hall and Dormitory	6.2 miles	1991
Summerland Trail Shelter	7.0 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91000194 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.