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Pleasants Ranch

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

One of 38 National Register listings published here for Solano County · listed in 2006 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 12 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 8212 Pleasants Valley Rd., Vacaville, 95688
  • When was it listed? April 2006
  • Category. district
  • Census division. Vacaville
  • National Register reference number. 06000280 - 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

1902 to 1983

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Pleasants Ranch, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet covering Pleasants Ranch, surveyed 1902

Fires near this property

556 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 556 fires within 5 miles of Pleasants Ranch between 1992 and 2020, burning about 23,098 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 25 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/undetermined341
Equipment and vehicle use120
Debris and open burning26
Arson/incendiarism25
Smoking14
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Natural7
Recreation and ceremony5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Other causes1
Fireworks1

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 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
9 September 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitBERRYESSA 2
9 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitSALLADE
9 September 1993Equipment and vehicle use75 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitPLEASANTS
8 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitLAMB
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa Unitnot named
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa Unitnot named
7 September 2010Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitBUCKTOWN LN VACAVILLE

Every fire recorded in Solano County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Pleasants Ranch: 1 past producer, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Platinum, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Putah CreekGold, PlatinumPast ProducerStream Placer

Every working recorded in Solano County

Storms near this property

5 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vacaville, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1999 and 2023: 3 flood, 1 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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
January 2023FloodVacaville-Solano County reported that multiple roads were flooded across the county.
December 2021FloodVacaville-Lane flooded on I-80E at Alamo Dr. offramp. Reported storm total rainfall amounts in the area were in excess of 3 inches.
October 2021Heavy RainVacaville-Heavy rain and flooding was reported in Solano County. A CoCoRaHS near Vacaville, CA reported 10.29 inches of storm total rain and 8.35 inches was also reported near lake Curry.
January 2005Tornado (F0)Vacaville-no account filed
February 1999FloodVacaville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Solano County

Maps showing this location

11 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 06000280 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Solano CountyAll 38 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.