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Stockmore Ranger Station

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NRHP Reference #
  
99001293

Area
  
4,000 m²

Nearest city
  
Tabiona

Opened
  
1914

Added to NRHP
  
12 November 1999

Stockmore Ranger Station

Architect
  
U.S. Forest Service architects

Built by
  
United States Forest Service

The Stockmore Ranger Station, in Ashley National Forest in Duchesne County, Utah near Tabiona, was built in c.1914. It is located off State Route 35/US 40 about 40 miles northwest of Duchesne, Utah. It was a work of U.S. Forest Service architects. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1999; the listing included five contributing buildings and five non-contributing buildings and structures, built from c.1914 to 1985.

It is significant as a memento of the early days of the U.S. Forest Service, which had been established in 1905. The station established a Federal presence and its main building is one of the "earliest remaining structures on the Ashley National Forest built specifically by the Forest Service to house a ranger." It is named for the former town of Stockmore, about 1/4 mile to the east, which had been abandoned around 1906 after it was discovered that supposed gold strike in the area had been a fraud.

References

Stockmore Ranger Station Wikipedia