BlockFrom the record
One of 22 National Register listings published here for Grays Harbor County · listed in 1993 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Ole Mickelson Cabin
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Mickelson, Ole, Cabin - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. Lot 46, S shore Lake Quinault, between Willaby Cr. and Falls Cr., Quinault, 98575
- When was it listed? May 1993
- Category. building
- Census division. Neilton
- National Register reference number. 92001291 - 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
20 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Ole Mickelson Cabin between 1993 and 2014, burning about 4 acres in total. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Olympic National Forest | GATTON CREEK SNAG |
| 14 September 1993 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Olympic National Forest | not named |
| 13 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 9 August 2011 | Smoking | under an acre | Olympic National Forest | OPEN LAKE |
| 6 August 1997 | Natural | under an acre | Olympic National Forest | QUINAULT RIDGE |
| 6 August 1997 | Natural | under an acre | Olympic National Forest | SOUTH SHORE |
| 4 August 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Olympic National Forest | 2257 DEBRIS |
| 21 August 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Olympic National Forest | BOULDER CREEK |
Mines and quarries near this property
9 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Ole Mickelson Cabin: 8 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, Cesium, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 246-3.6 Quarry Prairie Creek North | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Chamberlain Quarry | Cesium | Past Producer | ||
| Chamberlain Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Fishel Claim | Manganese | Occurrence | Replacement | |
| Fishel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Quinault Lake Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| State Pit Ps-H-128 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
1 since 2025Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Quinault, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2025: 1 heavy rain. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2025 | Heavy Rain | Quinault | - | Heavy rainfall of 6.76 inches was reported at Quinault in Olympic National Park.|Heavy rainfall of 4.61 inches was reported in Ocean Shores, WA. |
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
2 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Lake Quinault Lodge | 0.3 miles | 1998 |
 | Kestner Homestead | 3.6 miles | 2007 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 92001291 in Record Group 79. |
| Grays Harbor County | All 22 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.
- Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.