Photograph of Tule Lake National Monument — Photograph by Russell Lee, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Carpenter and Paint Shop

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1886.

From the record

“The Tule Lake War Relocation Center, also known as the Tule Lake Segregation Center, was an American concentration camp located in Modoc and Siskiyou counties in California and constructed in 1942 by the United States government to incarcerate Japanese Americans, forcibly removing them from their homes on the West Coast of the United States. They totaled nearly 120,000 people, more than two-thirds of whom were United States citizens.”
Wikipedia article Tule Lake War Relocation Center, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Modoc County · listed in 2006 · category: Building · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

National Historic Landmark. The highest federal designation, held by about 2,600 places in the country against roughly 100,000 Register listings.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 6 buildingss, 6 structuress, 1 site, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. NE side CA 139, Newell, 96134
When was it listed? February 2006
Category. building
Census division. Newell
National Register reference number. 06000210 - 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

1886 to 1988

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 102 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Carpenter and Paint Shop, surveyed 1988

Topographic sheet covering Carpenter and Paint Shop, surveyed 1886

Fires near this property

54 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Carpenter and Paint Shop between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,600 acres in total. 7 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
Debris and open burning	30
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Natural	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
8 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge	JEEP
5 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge	FROG
3 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge	#551
22 September 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge	ELVIS
2 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	35 acres	Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge	FROG
13 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge	MALLARD
9 August 2001	Natural	5.0 acres	Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge	SOUTH
5 August 2014	Natural	under an acre	Modoc National Forest	MDF DH HORSE

Every fire recorded in Modoc County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Carpenter and Paint Shop: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
	Horse Mountain Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Modoc County

Storms near this property

3 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Newell, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1997 and 2003: 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2003	Hail	Newell	-	See below.
June 1997	Hail	Newell	-	.75-1.25 INCH HAIL IN A 1/2 MILE SWATH.
June 1998	Flood	Newell	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Modoc County

Maps showing this location

10 surveys

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.

1886 USGS Modoc Lava Bed quadrangle1:250000
1892 USGS Modoc Lava Bed quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
1892 USGS Modoc Lava-Bed quadrangle1:250000
1951 USGS Tulelake quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1954 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1958 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Tulelake quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1988 USGS Tulelake quadrangle1:24000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 06000210 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Modoc County	All 7 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.