Brewster Building

Built in 1882 (Renaissance Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1894.

From the record

“The Brewster Building is a historic commercial building and IOOF Hall located at 201 Fourth Street in Galt, California. It was built in 1882 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.”
Wikipedia article Brewster Building (Galt, California), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 106 National Register listings published here for Sacramento County · listed in 2000 · category: Building · built in 1882, Renaissance Revival architecture.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 201 Fourth St., Galt, 95632
When was it listed? August 2000
Category. building
Census division. Galt
When was it built? 1882
Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 00000981 - 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.

Fires near this property

18 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Brewster Building between 1997 and 2020, burning about 111 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Arson/incendiarism	1
Debris and open burning	1
Fireworks	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
24 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	30 acres	Central California District	FRANKLIN
24 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Central California District	22
13 August 1997	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Central California District	LEVEE
18 July 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Central California District	PRESERVEI
17 July 2003	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Central California District	FRANKLIN
11 July 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
29 June 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Amador-El Dorado Unit	not named
22 June 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Central California District	CRP VC

Every fire recorded in Sacramento County

Storms near this property

2 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Galt, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2019 and 2025: 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
February 2025	Flood	Galt	-	California Highway Patrol reported roadway flooding along State Route 99 North and Simmerhorn Road offramp with a large puddle under the bridge due to heavy rain.
January 2019	Flood	Galt	-	California Highway Patrol reported heavy rain caused flooding of Highway 99 in Galt.

Every storm recorded in Sacramento County

Maps showing this location

10 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1894 USGS Lodi quadrangle1:125000 - 3 printings
1910 USGS Galt quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1941 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Galt quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1968 USGS Galt quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1993 USGS Lodi quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

2 within 8 miles

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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Brewster House	3.1 miles	1978
	Locke Historic Boarding House	8.0 miles	1971

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00000981 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sacramento County	All 106 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

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.
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.