Upper Granite Canyon Patrol Cabin

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.

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. SW corner of park at Granite Canyon, Rendezvous Pass, Moose, 83014
When was it listed? August 1998
Category. building
Also known as. Grand Teton National Park MPS
Census division. Jackson Hole
Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
Architect. Civilian Conservation Corps
National Register reference number. 98001043 - 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

37 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Upper Granite Canyon Patrol Cabin between 1994 and 2015, burning about 18 acres in total. 23 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	23
Recreation and ceremony	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Smoking	2
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
5 September 2007	Natural	1.0 acres	Grand Teton National Park	FORGET ME NOT
3 September 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	JED
26 September 2011	Natural	5.0 acres	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	MOOSE CREEK
25 September 2008	Natural	under an acre	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	GAME CREEK
18 September 2014	Natural	1.0 acres	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	HOUSETOP
17 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	FOX CREEK
16 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Bridger-Teton National Forest	TEEWINOT
15 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	DARBY CANYON

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 Upper Granite Canyon Patrol Cabin: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Talc-Soapstone. 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	Talc-Soapstone	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
John Clymer Residence	3.8 miles	2025
Alpenhof Lodge	4.0 miles	2016
Death Canyon Barn	4.9 miles	1998
Moran Bay Patrol Cabin	4.9 miles	1998
Snake River Ranch	6.0 miles	2004
White Grass Ranger Station Historic District	6.5 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98001043 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.