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Jackson Downtown Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1889.
From the record
“The Jackson Downtown Historic District, in Jackson, California, is a 14 acres (5.7 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. It runs roughly along Main St. from 215 Main St. to 14 Broadway.”
Wikipedia article Jackson Downtown Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 22 National Register listings published here for Amador County · listed in 2000 · category: District.
National Register reference number.00000365- 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.
Then and now
1889 to 1993
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
104 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
18891993
Fires near this property
285 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 285 fires within 5 miles of Jackson Downtown Historic District
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 72,029 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 22 were 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
98
Equipment and vehicle use
85
Debris and open burning
52
Arson/incendiarism
22
Power generation/transmission/distribution
10
Smoking
7
Natural
4
Recreation and ceremony
2
Railroad operations and maintenance
2
Misuse of fire by a minor
2
Other causes
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
328 workings within 5 miles of Jackson Downtown Historic District: 140 occurrences, 77 past producers, 74 prospects, 21 unknowns.
16 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Jackson, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1999 and 2022: 2 flood, 1 flash flood.
No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.
Flooding reported on Highway 49, along South Ave. in Jackson for backs of houses near creek, possible flooded basements. Jackson Creek and Sutter Creek rose over banks. Three bridges shut down in the area.
United States Geological Survey topographic
sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then
testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
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.
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.
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