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Photograph of Queen's Laundry Bath House
Photograph by John Good, National Park Service, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Queen's Laundry Bath House

Built in 1881 (rustic architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

From the record

“The Queen's Laundry Bath House is a ruinous structure in Yellowstone National Park. The log building sits on the edge of the Queen's Laundry thermal feature in the Lower Geyser Basin.”

Wikipedia article Queen's Laundry Bath House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 65 National Register listings published here for Teton County · listed in 2001 · category: Building · built in 1881, rustic architecture.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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. Sentinel Meadows, Lower Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, 82190
  • When was it listed? July 2001
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Yellowstone National Park
  • When was it built? 1881
  • Architectural style. rustic architecture
  • National Register reference number. 01000790 - 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

12 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Queen's Laundry Bath House between 1993 and 2017, burning about 6 acres in total. 3 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
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1
Debris and open burning1

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
8 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreYellowstone National ParkFIREHOLE
4 September 2002Natural1.0 acresYellowstone National ParkFOUNTAIN
2 September 1994Natural4.0 acresYellowstone National ParkSENTINEL
4 August 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreYellowstone National ParkMIDWAY
29 August 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreYellowstone National ParkWHITE CRK
24 August 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreYellowstone National ParkFAIRY
20 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreYellowstone National ParkSPASM
2 July 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreYellowstone National ParkFROG ROCK

Every fire recorded in Teton 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

3 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
Madison Museum5.4 miles1982
Old Faithful Inn7.4 miles1973
Old Faithful Historic District7.8 miles1982

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 01000790 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Teton CountyAll 65 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.