Jacob Lake Ranger Station
Jacob Lake Ranger Station | |
 The Jacob Lake Ranger Station, March 2010 | |
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| Location | Jacob Lake, Arizona United States |
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| Coordinates | 36°42′23.38″N 112°13′42.53″W / 36.7064944°N 112.2284806°W |
| Area | 1.7 acres (0.69 ha) |
| Built | 1910 |
| Built by | United States Forest Service |
| NRHP reference No. | 87001151[1] |
| Added to NRHP | July 13, 1987 |
The Jacob Lake Ranger Station is a historic U.S. Forest Service ranger station in the unincorporated community of Jacob Lake, Arizona, United States, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).[1]
Description[edit]
Jacob Lake is at a road junction leading to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, making the ranger station a major contact point for visitors to Kaibab National Forest until the construction of the nearby Kaibab Plateau Visitor Center. The ranger station comprises a wood-framed cabin and a barn, both adjoining a fenced pasture that surrounds Jacob Lake. The complex was built by the Forest Service in 1910.[2][3]
The cabin is a 24-foot (7.3 m) by 32-foot (9.8 m) wood-framed structure, resting on a limestone foundation. The walls are clad with board-and-batten siding, and the roof is covered with wood shakes, the only surviving board-and-batten cabin in Kaibab National Forest. The long elevation faces Jacob Lake with a shed-roofed porch across the entire side, formerly enclosed, but now restored to its original open configuration. The interior has two rooms, a kitchen and a bedroom, entered by individual doors from the porch.[2]
The barn is a 1+1⁄2-story frame structure with board-and-batten siding on a concrete foundation. The roof slopes saltbox fashion from 1+1⁄2 stories at the front to one story at the back.[2]
The Jacob Lake Ranger Station was placed on the NRHP on July 13, 1987.[1]
History[edit]
In June 2020, the station narrowly escape being destroyed in the Mangum Fire.[4]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ a b c Cleeland, Teri A. (December 29, 1986). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form: Jacob Lake Ranger Station". National Park Service. Retrieved 30 May 2013.
- ^ Joslin, Les (2012). Uncle Sam's Cabins: A Visitor's Guide to Historic U.S. Forest Service Ranger Stations of the West. Wilderness Associates. pp. 108–111. ISBN 978-0-9647167-8-0.
- ^ "#MangumFire "We attacked directly and fell back and attacked again, too many times to count. The fire burned within feet of the Historic Ranger station but through pre-preparation and crews arriving back on scene in the nick of time… saved it."". Twitter. Kaibab National Forest. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
External links[edit]
Media related to Jacob Lake Ranger Station at Wikimedia Commons
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