Chinook Pass Entrance Arch

Built in 1936 (National Park Service rustic). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

“The Chinook Pass Entrance Arch marks the east entrance to Mount Rainier National Park. The rectangular log entry arch is one of several placed at the entrances to the park.”
Wikipedia article Chinook Pass Entrance Arch, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 215 National Register listings published here for Pierce County · listed in 1991 · category: Structure · built in 1936, National Park Service rustic, by National Park Service.

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 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Mt. Rainier National Park, Chinook Pass Entrance, 98937
When was it listed? March 1991
Category. structure
Also known as. Mt. Rainier National Park MPS
When was it built? 1936
Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
Architect. National Park Service
National Register reference number. 91000202 - 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

38 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Chinook Pass Entrance Arch between 1992 and 2020, burning about 17 acres in total. 24 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	24
Recreation and ceremony	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	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
27 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest	SHEEP LAKE
20 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest	AMERICA RIVER
17 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest	not named
16 September 2012	Natural	10 acres	Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest	GOLD HILL
14 September 2012	Natural	under an acre	Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest	DEWEY LAKE
12 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest	CEDAR LANE
10 September 2014	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest	DEWEY LAKE

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 38 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 38 workings within 5 miles of Chinook Pass Entrance Arch: 14 prospects, 11 occurrences, 9 past producers, 4 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Copper, Silver, Gold. 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
Chinook	Copper, Silver, Gold, Molybdenum, Lead, Arsenic, Zinc	Occurrence	Chalcopyrite, Galena, Molybdenite, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Chinook	Copper, Gold, Silver	Occurrence
Crystal Mtn. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Current	Gold, Zinc, Silver, Lead, Copper	Prospect
Elizabeth Gold Hill	Gold, Copper, Lead, Silver	Prospect
Gold Hill	Gold, Lead, Zinc, Tungsten, Copper	Prospect
K.B. Group	Gold, Copper, Silver	Prospect
Mesatchee Creek Prospects	Copper, Gold, Silver	Occurrence	1895
Moly Nos. 1-5	Molybdenum	Prospect
Morse Creek Copper	Copper, Gold	Prospect

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	0.3 miles	1991
White River Entrance	2.8 miles	1991
White River Mess Hall and Dormitory	2.8 miles	1991
Shriner Peak Fire Lookout	4.1 miles	1991
White River Bridge	5.2 miles	1991
White River Patrol Cabin	6.2 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91000202 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.