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Photograph of Atchison Village
Photograph by Jet Lowe, HAER photographer, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Atchison Village Defense Housing Project, Cal. 4171-x

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. 19 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.

From the record

“Atchison Village is a community in Richmond, California which was originally built as housing for defense workers from the Kaiser Shipyards. Constructed by the Richmond Housing Authority in 1941 as Richmond's first public defense housing project, it is one of the only projects funded by the Community Facilities Act of 1940 that still exists in Richmond and one of the few in the nation not destroyed after the war.”

Wikipedia article Atchison Village, Richmond, California, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 49 National Register listings published here for Contra Costa County · listed in 2003 · category: District.

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

The listing

Then and now

1895 to 1995

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 100 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Atchison Village Defense Housing Project, Cal. 4171-x, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet covering Atchison Village Defense Housing Project, Cal. 4171-x, surveyed 1895

Fires near this property

315 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 315 fires within 5 miles of Atchison Village Defense Housing Project, Cal. 4171-x between 1998 and 2020, burning about 219 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 38 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/undetermined217
Arson/incendiarism38
Misuse of fire by a minor21
Smoking18
Equipment and vehicle use13
Debris and open burning5
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSanta Clara Unitnot named
7 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
5 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
5 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
4 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named

Every fire recorded in Contra Costa County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 30 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 30 workings within 5 miles of Atchison Village Defense Housing Project, Cal. 4171-x: 13 occurrences, 8 producers, 5 past producers, 4 prospects. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Manganese, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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
Blake Brothers QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Blake Brothers San PabloStone, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceSand
Unnamed LocationAsbestosOccurrence
Richmond MillLimestone, GeneralProducer
San Francisco Bay DredgeLimestone, GeneralProspect
United Materials and Richmond Pressed Brick Co.ClayProducer1907
UnknownMercuryOccurrence
Unnamed LocationMercuryProspect
Untd. Mtrls. & Rchmnd.Prssd.Brck.CoClayPast Producer
Red RockManganeseProducerMineral Paint, Psilomelane

Every working recorded in Contra Costa County

Storms near this property

6 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Richmond, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 5 flood, 1 tornado. 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
December 1998Tornado (F0)Richmond$200,000no account filed
December 2025FloodRichmond-One foot of water was reported on westbound Interstate 580 just east of Canal Boulevard.
November 2025FloodRichmond-The on and offramps from Canal Boulevard to Interstate 580 were flooded.
February 2019FloodRichmond-On ramp from Canal Blvd to I-580 E flooded with 1-1.5 feet of water.
January 2018FloodEast Richmond-WB I80 at Macdonald, lane flooded.
February 2017FloodEast Richmond-One foot of water in Portrero on ramp to I80.

Every storm recorded in Contra Costa County

Maps showing this location

19 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

6 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
New Hotel Carquinez0.7 miles1992
Maritime Child Development Center0.7 miles2001
Nystrom Elementary School-The Maritime Building0.7 miles2017
ROBERT GRAY (hydrographic survey vessel)0.8 miles2022
Point Richmond Historic District1.0 miles1979
Rosie the Riveter-World War II Home Front National Historical Park1.6 miles2001

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 03000473 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.