Rock Creek Fire Camp Burnover 1927

The Rock Creek Fire, which totaled 46,000 acres, was one of several reburns of the 1902 Yacolt Burn area. This fire was on national forest lands east of Battle Ground, Washington, in the general area of Silver Star Mountain. On August 16, 1927, low relative humidity and an east wind drove the Rock Creek Fire over control lines and towards a fire camp of 60 firefighters (of about 600-650 assigned to the fire). The camp was located somewhere in the vicinity of Mowich Butte. As the fire approached the camp, firefighters buried equipment in the drainage bottom to protect it from burning. The camp was then abandoned. No injuries were reported from this incident. 

The Rock Creek Fire burned on the Columbia National Forest, which in 1938 was renamed the Gifford Pinchot National Forest.