NRHP Reference # 99001293 Area 4,000 m² | Opened 1914 Added to NRHP 12 November 1999 | |
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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.