Manges Cabin

Built in 1911 (rustic architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

One of 65 National Register listings published here for Teton County · listed in 1998 · category: Building · built in 1911, rustic architecture.

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. S end of park SE of Taggart Lake, Moose, 83012
When was it listed? August 1998
Category. building
Also known as. Grand Teton National Park MPS
Census division. Jackson Hole
When was it built? 1911
Architectural style. rustic architecture
National Register reference number. 98001035 - 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

57 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Manges Cabin between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,126 acres in total. 35 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	35
Smoking	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Recreation and ceremony	4
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
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
21 September 2003	Natural	1.0 acres	Grand Teton National Park	W. TAGGART
14 September 2006	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Grand Teton National Park	POWERLINE
11 September 2012	Natural	under an acre	Grand Teton National Park	GARNET FIRE
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
5 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Grand Teton National Park	MOOSE PONDS

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
Double Diamond Dude Ranch Dining Hall	0.3 miles	1998
Highlands Historic District	0.8 miles	1998
Administrative Area Historic District, Old	0.9 miles	1990
Lucas, Geraldine Homestead-Fabian Place Historic District	1.6 miles	1998
Bar B C Dude Ranch	1.9 miles	1990
4 Lazy F Dude Ranch	2.5 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98001035 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.