String Lake Comfort Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

“The String Lake Comfort Station is one of three similar buildings in Grand Teton National Park that were built by the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Public Works Administration to standard National Park Service plans. Built between 1934 and 1939, the String Lake station was originally located near the Jenny Lake ranger station.”
Wikipedia article String Lake Comfort Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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

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 Teton Park Rd. at String Lake, Moose, 83013
When was it listed? April 1990
Category. building
Also known as. Grand Teton National Park MPS
Census division. Jackson Hole
Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
National Register reference number. 90000617 - 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

44 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of String Lake Comfort Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,388 acres in total. 28 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	28
Smoking	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
8 September 2008	Smoking	under an acre	Grand Teton National Park	BAT HOUSE
4 September 2016	Natural	1.5 acres	Grand Teton National Park	BURNED RIDGE
2 September 2009	Natural	2,939 acres	Grand Teton National Park	BEARPAW BAY
2 September 1999	Natural	347 acres	Grand Teton National Park	ALDER
19 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Grand Teton National Park	SPALDING JUNCTION
15 September 2018	Natural	3.5 acres	Grand Teton National Park	LEIGH CANYON
1 September 2019	Smoking	under an acre	Grand Teton National Park	LUPINE
1 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Grand Teton National Park	WILLOW

Every fire recorded in Teton County

Storms near this property

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moose, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 wildfire, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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
July 2007	Lightning	Moose	1 hurt	no account filed
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Moose	$10,000	Several trees were downed in a swath from the Death Canyon Trailhead east across the Moose-Wilson Road. Motorists were trapped on the road by fallen trees which were blocking passage. One vehicle was damaged near Death Canyon due to a fallen tree.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Moose	-	A 60 mph wind gust was reported at the weather station at the Teton Saddle.
July 2013	Hail	Moose	-	Nickel sized hail was seen at Moose by a trained spotter.
August 2003	Wildfire	Moose	-	no account filed
July 2002	Hail	Moose	-	no account filed

Every storm 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

6 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Jenny Lake Ranger Station Historic District	2.4 miles	1990
Jenny Lake Boat Concession Facilities	2.6 miles	1998
Leigh Lake Ranger Patrol Cabin	2.7 miles	1990
Jenny Lake CCC Camp NP-4	2.7 miles	2006
Kimmel Kabins	3.1 miles	1990
Lucas, Geraldine Homestead-Fabian Place Historic District	4.7 miles	1998

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90000617 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.
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.