White River Mess Hall and Dormitory

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

From the record

One of 215 National Register listings published here for Pierce County · listed in 1991 · category: Building · built in 1933, National Park Service rustic, by http://www.wikidata.org/.well-known/genid/394d61fe532cef1c354ed243098ad69e.

Sources: 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, White River 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. National Park Service rustic
Architect. http://www.wikidata.org/.well-known/genid/394d61fe532cef1c354ed243098ad69e
National Register reference number. 91000328 - 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

46 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of White River Mess Hall and Dormitory between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8 acres in total. 28 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	28
Recreation and ceremony	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	1
Fireworks	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
7 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	GOLD HILLS HEMMINGWAY
28 September 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest	SOUTH FORK
27 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest	SHEEP LAKE
22 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest	SILVER CREEK
17 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest	not named
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
1 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Mount Rainier National Park	MARCUS

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 28 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of White River Mess Hall and Dormitory: 9 occurrences, 8 prospects, 7 past producers, 4 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Silver, Gold, Silver, Copper. 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
Chinook	Copper, Silver, Gold	Past Producer
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
Silver Creek	Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Arsenic	Past Producer	Galena, Marcasite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Sphalerite
Silver Creek	Lead, Zinc, Gold, Copper, Silver	Occurrence
Unnamed Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	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
White River Entrance	under 500 feet	1991
Tipsoo Lake Comfort Station	2.8 miles	1991
Chinook Pass Entrance Arch	2.8 miles	1991
White River Bridge	3.0 miles	1991
White River Patrol Cabin	3.9 miles	1991
Sunrise Historic District	4.2 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91000328 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.