Built in 1847 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1916.
From the record
“The Nicholas Carriger Estate (16-acre) is a collection of buildings located in Sonoma, California. The estate consists of three buildings: the main house built in 1847, a small house, which is a replica of the main house, built in 1860, and a winery, built in 1875.”
Wikipedia article Nicholas Carriger Estate, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 73 National Register listings published here for Sonoma County · listed in 2001 · category: Building · built in 1847, Greek Revival architecture.
National Register reference number.01001234- 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
1916 to 1983
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
67 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19161983
Fires near this property
335 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 335 fires within 5 miles of Nicholas Carriger Estate
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 497 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 19 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
Equipment and vehicle use
139
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
125
Debris and open burning
20
Arson/incendiarism
19
Misuse of fire by a minor
13
Power generation/transmission/distribution
9
Smoking
5
Natural
3
Recreation and ceremony
1
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
36 workings within 5 miles of Nicholas Carriger Estate: 19 past producers, 12 producers, 3 unknowns, 2 occurrences.
12 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Diatomite, 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
Sonoma, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 5 flood, 2 heavy rain, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood.
The reports record 3 injuries. 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.
Heavy rain caused a fatality of a 32 year-old man when his vehicle collided with another vehicle. Highways 116 and 121 were closed for about three hours after the collision.
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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