BlockFrom the record
One of 106 National Register listings published here for Sacramento County · listed in 2000 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Runyon House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1908.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 12865 River Rd., Courtland, 95615
- When was it listed? October 2000
- Category. building
- Census division. Isleton
- Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
- National Register reference number. 00001270 - 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
3 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Runyon House between 2013 and 2016, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 June 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Stone Lakes National Wildlife Refuge | SUN RIVER |
| 15 March 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Amador-El Dorado Unit | not named |
| 21 February 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Amador-El Dorado Unit | not named |
Maps showing this location
10 surveysUnited 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.
- 1908 USGS Courtland quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
- 1916 USGS Vorden quadrangle1:31680
- 1947 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000
- 1952 USGS Courtland quadrangle1:24000 - 6 printings
- 1952 USGS Courtland quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
- 1978 USGS Courtland quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
- 1993 USGS Lodi quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Locke Historic Boarding House | 3.6 miles | 1971 | |
| John Stanford Brown House | 3.7 miles | 2004 | |
 | Walnut Grove Japanese-American Historic District | 3.9 miles | 1990 |
| Walnut Grove Chinese-American Historic District | 4.0 miles | 1990 | |
 | Imperial Theatre | 4.0 miles | 1982 |
| Walnut Grove Commercial/Residential Historic District | 4.1 miles | 1990 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 00001270 in Record Group 79. |
| 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.