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Moran Bay Patrol Cabin

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“The Moran Bay Patrol Cabin was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps about 1932. The log structure was located in the northern backcountry of Grand Teton National Park, and was built to a standard design for such structures, in the National Park Service Rustic style, but for the U.S.”

Wikipedia article Moran Bay Patrol Cabin, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 65 National Register listings published here for Teton County · listed in 1998 · 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. N bank of Moran Bay on Jackson Lake, Moose, 83012
  • When was it listed? August 1998
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Grand Teton National Park MPS
  • Census division. Jackson Hole
  • Architectural style. rustic architecture
  • Architect. United States Forest Service
  • National Register reference number. 98001037 - 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

41 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Moran Bay Patrol Cabin between 1992 and 2020, burning about 20 acres in total. 24 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
Natural24
Recreation and ceremony7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 2007Natural1.0 acresGrand Teton National ParkFORGET ME NOT
21 September 2003Natural1.0 acresGrand Teton National ParkW. TAGGART
16 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBridger-Teton National ForestTEEWINOT
14 September 2006Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreGrand Teton National ParkPOWERLINE
12 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGrand Teton National ParkSHELF
11 September 2012Naturalunder an acreGrand Teton National ParkGARNET FIRE
8 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGrand Teton National ParkLONE PINE
29 August 1994Naturalunder an acreBridger-Teton National ForestVILLAGE

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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2007LightningMoose1 hurtno account filed
June 2009Thunderstorm WindMoose$10,000Several 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 2024Thunderstorm WindMoose-A 60 mph wind gust was reported at the weather station at the Teton Saddle.
July 2013HailMoose-Nickel sized hail was seen at Moose by a trained spotter.
August 2003WildfireMoose-no account filed
July 2002HailMoose-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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Death Canyon Barnunder 500 feet1998
White Grass Ranger Station Historic District2.5 miles1990
White Grass Dude Ranch2.8 miles1990
Administrative Area Historic District, Old4.9 miles1990
Upper Granite Canyon Patrol Cabin4.9 miles1998
Murie Ranch Historic District5.1 miles1998

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 98001037 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Teton CountyAll 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.