Koma Kulshan Ranger Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

One of 74 National Register listings published here for Whatcom County · listed in 1991 · category: Building.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Forest Rd. 11, W of Baker Lake, Mt. Baker National Forest, Concrete, 98237
When was it listed? June 1991
Category. building
Also known as. USDA Forest Service Administrative Buildings in Oregon and Washington Built by the CCC MPS
Census division. East Whatcom
National Register reference number. 91000708 - 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

39 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Koma Kulshan Ranger Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 9 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony	29
Natural	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Debris and open burning	1
Fireworks	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
29 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest	LITTLE SANDY
14 September 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	BEAR CREEK
12 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest	BLUE LAKE
11 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
11 September 1993	Natural	under an acre	Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest	not named
8 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest	ISLAND
5 August 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest	ANDERSON POINT
4 August 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest	ANDERSON CREEK

Every fire recorded in Whatcom County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Koma Kulshan Ranger Station: 4 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Baker Lake Deposit	Diatomite	Occurrence
Loomis Mountain	Copper, Zinc	Prospect
Federal Highway Administration	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Grandy Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Rocky Creek Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Wilder Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Blue Lake Deposit	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Dock Butte Trail Deposit No. 1	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Dock Butte Trail Deposit No. 2	Limestone, General	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Whatcom 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

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Park Butte Lookout	7.5 miles	1987

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91000708 in Record Group 79.
Whatcom County	All 74 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.