Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1888.
From the record
“The Cecil Ranch, in Grimes, California in Colusa County, California, United States, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. The listing included seven contributing buildings and a contributing structure on 1.7 acres (0.69 ha).”
Wikipedia article Cecil Ranch, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 5 National Register listings published here for Colusa County · listed in 2004 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.03000988- 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
1888 to 1993
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
105 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
18881993
Fires near this property
15 since 2005
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Cecil Ranch
between 2005 and 2014, burning about 42 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
10
Equipment and vehicle use
2
Debris and open burning
2
Misuse of fire by a minor
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
17 September 2008
Equipment and vehicle use
1.0 acres
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
5 August 2006
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1.0 acres
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
20 August 2008
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
3.0 acres
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
14 July 2007
Misuse of fire by a minor
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
21 June 2009
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
27 May 2009
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
3.0 acres
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
5 March 2007
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1.0 acres
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
23 February 2005
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
20 acres
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
3 workings within 5 miles of Cecil Ranch: 2 occurrences, 1 unknown.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Chromium, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
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.
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.
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