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Park Headquarters, Lassen Volcanic National Park
Built in 1929 (National Park Service rustic). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1886.
From the record
“The Headquarters Building at Lassen Volcanic National Park was built in 1928 in an adapted National Park Service Rustic style.”
Wikipedia article Park Headquarters, Lassen Volcanic National Park, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 9 National Register listings published here for Tehama County · listed in 1978 · category: Building · built in 1929, National Park Service rustic.
National Register reference number.06000490- 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 1995
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
109 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
18861995
Fires near this property
69 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Park Headquarters, Lassen Volcanic National Park
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 72 acres in total. 30 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
30
Recreation and ceremony
13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
10
Equipment and vehicle use
7
Smoking
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
8 September 1995
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Lassen National Forest
MORGAN
7 September 1995
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Lassen National Forest
TENT
6 September 2017
Natural
under an acre
Lassen National Forest
ROCKY 2
6 September 2017
Natural
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
1 working within 5 miles of Park Headquarters, Lassen Volcanic National Park: 1 occurrence.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Mineral, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2015: 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.
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.
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.
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