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Sunrise Comfort Station

Built in 1930. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

“The Sunrise Comfort Station (S-310) is a comfort station in Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, USA. Built around 1930, the building was designed by Thomas Chalmers Vint of the National Park Service in association with landscape architect E.A.”

Wikipedia article Sunrise Comfort Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 215 National Register listings published here for Pierce County · listed in 1991 · category: Building · built in 1930, by Ernest A. Davidson, Thomas Chalmers Vint.

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, Sunrise, 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? 1930
  • Architect. Ernest A. Davidson, Thomas Chalmers Vint
  • National Register reference number. 91000207 - 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

35 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Sunrise Comfort Station between 1992 and 2018, burning about 349 acres in total. 31 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
Natural31
Recreation and ceremony2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
1 September 1997Naturalunder an acreMount Rainier National ParkMARCUS
6 August 1999Naturalunder an acreMount Rainier National ParkWHITE
5 August 2003Natural310 acresMount Rainier National ParkREDSTONE3
3 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMount Rainier National ParkWHITERIVER
3 August 1994Naturalunder an acreMount Rainier National ParkCOLD BASIN
3 August 1994Naturalunder an acreMount Rainier National ParkGRAND
3 August 1994Naturalunder an acreMount Rainier National ParkELK RIDGE
29 August 2002Natural2.0 acresMount Rainier National ParkCOLDBASIN

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 Sunrise Comfort Station: 1 past producer, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Black HawkGoldUnknown
StarbonitCopperPast 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Yakima Park Stockade Group0.8 miles1987
Sunrise Historic District0.9 miles1991
White River Patrol Cabin1.2 miles1991
Mt. Fremont Fire Lookout1.7 miles1991
White River Bridge2.1 miles1991
Summerland Trail Shelter3.2 miles1991

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 91000207 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Pierce CountyAll 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.