Jenny Lake CCC Camp NP-4

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

From the record

“CCC Camp NP-4, also known as the Horse Concessioner Dormitory and the Climbing Concession Office, at Jenny Lake in Grand Teton National Park was the largest Civilian Conservation Corps camp in Grand Teton. Located at the South end of Jenny Lake, the camp housed young men from 1934 to 1942, who worked on improvements to trails, campsites, employee housing, utilities and timber salvage at Jackson Lake.”
Wikipedia article Jenny Lake CCC Camp NP-4, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 65 National Register listings published here for Teton County · listed in 2006 · 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 1/4 mi. S of Jenny Lake, W side of Cottonwood Cr., Moose, 83012
When was it listed? July 2006
Category. building
Also known as. Grand Teton National Park MPS
Census division. Jackson Hole
Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
Architect. National Park Service
National Register reference number. 98001033 - 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

52 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Jenny Lake CCC Camp NP-4 between 1992 and 2020, burning about 446 acres in total. 32 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	32
Smoking	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Recreation and ceremony	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
5 September 2016	Natural	under an acre	Grand Teton National Park	RIVERBANK
4 September 2016	Natural	1.5 acres	Grand Teton National Park	BURNED RIDGE
21 September 2003	Natural	1.0 acres	Grand Teton National Park	W. TAGGART
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
11 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Grand Teton National Park	SOUTH FORK
11 September 2012	Natural	under an acre	Grand Teton National Park	GARNET FIRE

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 Jenny Lake CCC Camp NP-4: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. 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
	Unknown	Gold	Occurrence

Every working 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 Boat Concession Facilities	0.1 miles	1998
Jenny Lake Ranger Station Historic District	0.3 miles	1990
Kimmel Kabins	0.4 miles	1990
Lucas, Geraldine Homestead-Fabian Place Historic District	2.0 miles	1998
String Lake Comfort Station	2.7 miles	1990
Highlands Historic District	2.8 miles	1998

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98001033 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.
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.