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Photograph of Forest Home Farms
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Forest Home Farms

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1906.

From the record

“The Forest Home Farms is a 16-acre (6.5-hectare) municipal historic park located in San Ramon, California. In 1997, Ruth Quayle Boone bequeathed the land and all buildings on it to the City of San Ramon for use as a park and historical site in memory of her husband, Travis Moore Boone.”

Wikipedia article Forest Home Farms, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 49 National Register listings published here for Contra Costa County · listed in 2002 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. 19953 San Ramon Valley Blvd., San Ramon, 94583
  • When was it listed? June 2002
  • Category. district
  • Census division. Central Contra Costa
  • Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 02000677 - 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

211 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 211 fires within 5 miles of Forest Home Farms between 1992 and 2020, burning about 914 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 11 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/undetermined130
Equipment and vehicle use44
Arson/incendiarism11
Smoking9
Debris and open burning8
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony2
Firearms and explosives use1
Fireworks1
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSanta Clara Unitnot named
9 September 1996Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresSanta Clara UnitCHABOT #2
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSanta Clara Unitnot named
6 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSanta Clara UnitALCO #10
30 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSanta Clara UnitDUBLIN
3 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSanta Clara Unitnot named
3 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
3 September 2009Equipment and vehicle use4.5 acresSanta Clara UnitEDEN

Every fire recorded in Contra Costa County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Forest Home Farms: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Contra Costa County

Storms near this property

2 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names San Ramon, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 2020: 1 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2020HailSan Ramon-Spotter reporting pea-sized hail near San Ramon.
January 2020FloodSan Ramon-Roadway flooding at I-680 S and Crow Canyon Rd off ramp. Vehicles hydroplaning.

Every storm recorded in Contra Costa County

Maps showing this location

12 surveys

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.

Listed places nearby

4 within 8 miles

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Danville Southern Pacific Railroad Depot6.4 miles1994
Tassajara One Room School6.9 miles2014
Tao House7.5 miles1971
Eugene O'Neill National Historic Site7.5 miles1978

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 02000677 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Contra Costa CountyAll 49 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.