Huckleberry Mountain Fire Lookout

Built in 1938 (Forest Service rustic). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“The Huckleberry Mountain Fire Overlook is a fire lookout station in northern Bridger-Teton National Forest. The rustic two-story log structure was built in 1938 by the Civilian Conservation Corps to a standard U.S.”
Wikipedia article Huckleberry Mountain Fire Lookout, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 65 National Register listings published here for Teton County · listed in 1983 · category: Building · built in 1938, Forest Service rustic.

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. Off US 89/287, Teton National Forest, 83013
When was it listed? July 1983
Category. building
Census division. Jackson Hole
When was it built? 1938
Architectural style. Forest Service rustic
National Register reference number. 83003365 - 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 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Huckleberry Mountain Fire Lookout between 1992 and 2019, burning about 191 acres in total. 13 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	13
Recreation and ceremony	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Other causes	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
9 September 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Bridger-Teton National Forest	BAILEY
26 September 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Grand Teton National Park	RANCH
13 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Yellowstone National Park	HUCKLEBERR
9 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Grand Teton National Park	1433
5 August 2013	Natural	189 acres	Yellowstone National Park	SNAKE
3 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Yellowstone National Park	SNAKE
25 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Bridger-Teton National Forest	WILDCAT MOUNTAIN
22 August 1992	Natural	under an acre	Yellowstone National Park	SOUTH

Every fire recorded in Teton County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Huckleberry Mountain Fire Lookout: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Geothermal. 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
	Huckleberry Hot Springs	Geothermal	Unknown

Every working 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83003365 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Teton County	All 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.
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.