BlockFrom the record
One of 24 National Register listings published here for Butte County · listed in 2001 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Hazel Hotel
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1888.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 850, 860, 880, 890 Hazel St., and 602,608, 620 Kentuckey, Gridley, 95948
- When was it listed? July 2001
- Category. building
- Census division. Gridley
- National Register reference number. 01000705 - 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
1888 to 1993The ground this property stands on, surveyed 105 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Fires near this property
621 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 621 fires within 5 miles of Hazel Hotel between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,294 acres in total. None started naturally. 45 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 | 233 |
| Debris and open burning | 157 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 142 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 45 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 21 |
| Smoking | 15 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Butte Unit | CHATFIELD |
| 9 September 1996 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Butte Unit | PAMMA,G |
| 8 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Butte Unit | GRIDLEY FARM LABOR CAMP G |
| 7 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Butte Unit | BIGGS |
| 7 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Butte Unit | BONITO |
| 7 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Butte Unit | HWY99 |
| 7 September 1994 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Butte Unit | NAUMES |
| 7 September 1992 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Butte Unit | HAMILTON |
Mines and quarries near this property
7 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Hazel Hotel: 5 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oroville Gold Dredging Company | Gold | Unknown | ||
| Woods Pit & Mill | Stone | Producer | ||
| Cooper Pit and Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Gridley Pit and Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Mathews Roy | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | Sedimentary | |
| Mcfarland Pit and Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Robinson Construction Co | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this property
2 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gridley, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 2019: 1 lightning, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2019 | Lightning | Gridley | $1,000 | A video from Gridley, CA showed lighting striking a power pole. |
| May 2019 | Flood | East Gridley | - | CHP reported road flooding at Larkin Rd. |
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.
- 1888 USGS Marysville quadrangle1:125000
- 1891 USGS Marysville quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Marysville quadrangle1:125000
- 1895 USGS Marysville quadrangle1:125000 - 6 printings
- 1912 USGS Gridley quadrangle1:31680
- 1952 USGS Gridley quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
- 1952 USGS Gridley quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Chico quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Chico quadrangle1:250000
- 1993 USGS Yuba City quadrangle1:100000
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 01000705 in Record Group 79. |
| Butte County | All 24 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.
- 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.