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One of 32 National Register listings published here for San Luis Obispo County · listed in 2001 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Lincoln School
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1919.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 9000 Chimney Rock Rd., Paso Robles, 93446
- When was it listed? November 2001
- Category. building
- Census division. Paso Robles
- Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
- National Register reference number. 01001244 - 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
1919 to 1989The ground this property stands on, surveyed 70 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
83 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Lincoln School between 1992 and 2019, burning about 931 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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 | 36 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 26 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | San Luis Obispo Unit | CHIMNEY |
| 25 September 1999 | Natural | 6.0 acres | San Luis Obispo Unit | CHIMNEY |
| 23 September 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Central California District | ROCK |
| 2 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | San Luis Obispo Unit | CHIMNEY |
| 2 September 2004 | Equipment and vehicle use | 7.0 acres | San Luis Obispo Unit | CANYON |
| 19 September 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | San Luis Obispo Unit | CHIMNEY ROCK |
| 15 September 1994 | Equipment and vehicle use | 40 acres | San Luis Obispo Unit | LAKE |
| 14 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | San Luis Obispo Unit | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
9 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Lincoln School: 2 occurrences, 2 prospects, 2 past producers, 2 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Mercury, Limestone, General, Pumice. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Almaden Deposit | Limestone, General | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Quarry | Pumice | Past Producer | ||
| Buena Vista | Mercury | Producer | ||
| Buena Vista | Mercury | Plant | Underground | |
| Capitola Mine | Mercury | Prospect | ||
| Klau Mine | Mercury | Past Producer | 1868, 1874 | |
| Mahoney | Mercury | Producer | 1874 | |
| William Tell | Mercury | Occurrence | 1900 | |
| William Tell Mine | Mercury | Prospect |
Storms near this property
3 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Paso Robles, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 2 flash flood, 1 wildfire. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2002 | Wildfire | Paso Robles | $290,000 | A wildfire burned 715 acres of forest in San Luis Obispo County, about 12 miles east of Paso Robles. The fire cost about $290,000 to fight, but resulted in no deaths or injuries. |
| February 2024 | Flash Flood | Paso Robles | - | Swift water rescue teams rescued three people from the Salinas River. |
| February 2024 | Flash Flood | Paso Robles | - | Flash flooding resulted in the closure of a section of Buena Vista Drive, near Paso Robles. |
Maps showing this location
12 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.
- 1919 USGS Adelaida quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1932 USGS Adelaida quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1942 USGS Adelaida quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Adelaida quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1947 USGS San Luis Obispo quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Adelaida quadrangle1:24000 - 8 printings
- 1948 USGS San Luis Obispo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS San Luis Obispo quadrangle1:250000 - 5 printings
- 1957 USGS San Luis Obispo quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS San Luis Obispo quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Adelaida quadrangle1:62500
- 1989 USGS Paso Robles quadrangle1:100000
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 01001244 in Record Group 79. |
| San Luis Obispo County | All 32 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.