Squirrel Meadows Guard Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

One of 65 National Register listings published here for Teton County · listed in 1990 · category: Building.

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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Forest Rd. 20031, City Unavailable, 83414
When was it listed? October 1990
Category. building
Census division. Alta
Architectural style. rustic architecture
National Register reference number. 90000149 - 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 Squirrel Meadows Guard Station between 1992 and 2019, burning about 147 acres in total. 17 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	17
Recreation and ceremony	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
5 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	HOMINY
1 September 2002	Natural	1.0 acres	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	ERNEST LAKE
9 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	CHAIN
9 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	SQUIRREL
8 August 2003	Natural	5.0 acres	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	DOG CREEK
8 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	BOONE
6 August 2001	Natural	1.0 acres	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	SQUIRREL
29 August 1994	Natural	7.0 acres	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	not named

Every fire recorded in Teton County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Squirrel Meadows Guard Station: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Pumice, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
	Stone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
	Wyoming Creek	Pumice	Producer

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 90000149 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.