Built in 1931. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1896.
From the record
“The Baker Highway Maintenance Station, in Tuolumne County, California near Strawberry, California, was built in 1931. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.”
Wikipedia article Baker Highway Maintenance Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 32 National Register listings published here for Tuolumne County · listed in 2004 · category: District · built in 1931.
National Register reference number.04000928- 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
1896 to 2001
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.
18962001
Fires near this property
124 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 124 fires within 5 miles of Baker Highway Maintenance Station
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 353 acres in total. 95 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
Natural
95
Recreation and ceremony
11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
8
Debris and open burning
5
Smoking
3
Equipment and vehicle use
2
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
8 workings within 5 miles of Baker Highway Maintenance Station: 3 past producers, 2 producers, 2 unknowns, 1 prospect.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Uranium, Gold, Lead, Zinc, Bentonite. 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.
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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