BlockFrom the record
One of 24 National Register listings published here for Yolo County · listed in 2006 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Walnut Street School
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1907.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 175 Walnut St., Woodland, 95695
- When was it listed? March 2006
- Category. building
- Census division. Woodland
- Architect. W. H. Weeks
- National Register reference number. 06000144 - 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
189 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 189 fires within 5 miles of Walnut Street School between 2005 and 2020, burning about 275 acres in total. None started naturally. 12 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 | 145 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 17 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 12 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | not named |
| 3 September 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 3 September 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 3 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 28 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 27 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | not named |
| 24 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | not named |
| 22 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.1 acres | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 22 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Walnut Street School: 11 unknowns, 9 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Calcium. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Woodland Plant | Calcium | Producer | ||
| Ashley Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Cache Creek Aggregates | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Cache Creek Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Cache Creek Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Cache Creek Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Granite Construction Co. | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Granite Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
Storms near this property
7 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodland, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 3 flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woodland | $10,000 | Strong straight-line winds downed multiple trees and utility poles near downtown Woodland. Sacramento International Airport reported a max gust of 46 mph. Time was estimated by radar. |
| April 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woodland | $7,000 | A gustnado developed ahead of a line of showers moving through the city of Woodland. The discontinuous damage path was about 1700 feet long and 20 feet across. A tree two feet in diameter was uprooted, a section of metal bleachers were moved, and several tents were damaged. There was minor damage to three mobile homes in a nearby mobile home park, with porches pulled off and large flower pots knocked over. |
| November 2024 | Flood | Woodland | - | California Highway Patrol reported that half of the roadway was flooded at the intersection of State Route 16 and West Kentucky Avenue. |
| December 2021 | Flood | Woodland | - | Yolo county reported numerous flooded and closed roadways. Reported storm total rainfall amounts in the area were around 2 to 2.5 inches. |
| January 2019 | Flood | Woodland | - | The California Highway Patrol reported heavy rain caused flooding on Highway 16 in Woodland. |
| September 2019 | Hail | Woodland | - | A spotter SO47, located on highway 113 north of Davis, reported one inch hail stones. |
| October 1996 | Funnel Cloud | Woodland | - | no account filed |
Maps showing this location
10 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.
- 1907 USGS Woodland quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1915 USGS Yolo quadrangle1:31680
- 1941 USGS Woodland quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000
- 1952 USGS Woodland quadrangle1:24000 - 7 printings
- 1953 USGS Woodland quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
- 1994 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Woodland Public Library | 0.3 miles | 1981 |
 | Porter Building | 0.3 miles | 1978 |
 | Hotel Woodland | 0.3 miles | 1994 |
 | Downtown Woodland Historic District | 0.3 miles | 1999 |
 | Woodland Opera House | 0.4 miles | 1971 |
 | Yolo County Courthouse | 0.4 miles | 1987 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 06000144 in Record Group 79. |
| Yolo County | All 24 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.