Tolmie Peak Fire Lookout

Built in 1933. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

“The Tolmie Peak Fire Lookout is one of four fire lookout stations built in Mount Rainier National Park by the United States National Park Service (NPS) between 1932 and 1934. The two-story structure houses a lookout station on the upper level and storage at ground level.”
Wikipedia article Tolmie 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 1933, by http://www.wikidata.org/.well-known/genid/4405d9ef8645a74d143159ef8bea553c.

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, Mowich Lake 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
Architect. http://www.wikidata.org/.well-known/genid/4405d9ef8645a74d143159ef8bea553c
National Register reference number. 91000195 - 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

37 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Tolmie Peak Fire Lookout between 1993 and 2018, burning about 339 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 2 were 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	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Natural	6
Arson/incendiarism	2
Debris and open burning	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
5 September 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	CARBON RIVER
3 September 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	7810 CAMPFIRE
23 September 2003	Natural	20 acres	Mount Rainier National Park	CARBON
22 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest	MOWICH RIDGE
14 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest	EVANS CREEK
7 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9.9 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	BURNT MOUNTAIN
7 August 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	CARBON CAMPFIRE
6 August 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest	EVANS CREEK

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Tolmie Peak Fire Lookout: 3 prospects, 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, 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
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Bunny	Copper	Prospect
Clipper Mine	Copper	Prospect
Surprise	Copper	Prospect
Tillie and Larigo	Copper	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

5 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
Mowich Lake Patrol Cabin	1.8 miles	1991
Ipsut Creek Patrol Cabin	2.7 miles	1991
North Mowich Trail Shelter	3.0 miles	1991
Sunset Park Trail Shelter	5.2 miles	1991
Sunset Park Patrol Cabin	5.2 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91000195 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.