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Photograph of Goffs Schoolhouse
Photograph by Einbierbitte, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Goffs Schoolhouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1942.

From the record

“The Goffs Schoolhouse is a historic school building located at 37198 Lanfair Road in Goffs, California. Opened in 1914, the one-room schoolhouse was the first in Goffs used solely as a school; prior to its construction, the school district had used a rented building.”

Wikipedia article Goffs Schoolhouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 98 National Register listings published here for San Bernardino County · listed in 2001 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 37198 Lanfair Rd., Goffs, 92332
  • When was it listed? October 2001
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Needles
  • National Register reference number. 01001102 - 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

1942 to 1985

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 43 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Goffs Schoolhouse, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet covering Goffs Schoolhouse, surveyed 1942

Fires near this property

7 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Goffs Schoolhouse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1 acre in total. 2 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
Natural2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreMojave National PreserveBLMASST#25
26 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictGOFFS
25 August 2003Naturalunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictGOFFS 2
25 August 2003Naturalunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictGOFFS3
2 July 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMojave National PreserveGOFFS#2
1 October 2008Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictBREAKFAST
31 January 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMojave National PreserveBDC ASSIST

Every fire recorded in San Bernardino County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Goffs Schoolhouse: 10 prospects, 4 past producers, 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Silver, Mercury. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Copper ChiefCopper, Gold, SilverPast Producer
Copper ChiefCopper, Silver, GoldPast Producer
Unnamed ProspectSilver, Copper, GoldProspect
Idria Quicksilver GroupMercuryOccurrence1917
Turtle Dove Quicksilver ProspectMercuryProspect
EatonGold, SilverOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectSilver, CopperProspect
Unnamed ProspectSilverProspect
Unnamed ProspectSilver, CopperProspect
Unnamed ProspectSilver, CopperProspect

Every working recorded in San Bernardino County

Storms near this property

6 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Goffs, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2006 and 2025: 6 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2025Flash FloodGoffs$10,000Goffs Road was closed from Highway 95 to Interstate 40 due to flooding which damaged the road.
July 2018Flash FloodGoffs$2,000Flash flooding closed Goffs Road.
October 2015Flash FloodGoffs$2,000Goffs Road was closed due to two feet of water flowing over the road.
June 2025Flash FloodGoffs$1,000Goffs Road was flooded and closed.
August 2023Flash FloodGoffs$1,000Flash flooding closed Goffs Rd from I-40 to Highway 95.
October 2006Flash FloodGoffs-Several roads in eastern San Bernardino County, including U.S. Hwy. 95, Needles Hwy, and Goffs Rd. were closed due to flooding.

Every storm recorded in San Bernardino County

Maps showing this location

9 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 01001102 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
San Bernardino CountyAll 98 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.