BlockFrom the record
One of 73 National Register listings published here for Sonoma County · listed in 2008 · category: Site.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
SS POMONA (Shipwreck)
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1921.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Fort Ross Cove, off Fort Ross Historic State Park, Jenner
- When was it listed? January 2008
- Category. site
- Census division. Russian River-Sonoma Coast
- National Register reference number. 07000306 - 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
1921 to 1998The ground this property stands on, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Fires near this property
82 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 82 fires within 5 miles of SS POMONA (Shipwreck) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 110 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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 | 32 |
| Debris and open burning | 20 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 15 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
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 2015 | Smoking | under an acre | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | UMLAND CIR TIMBER_COVE |
| 8 September 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Northern California District | CAMPFIRE |
| 5 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Northern California District | UNNAMED FIRE 3652 |
| 25 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.5 acres | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | BOHAN |
| 23 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | GROLBERT |
| 21 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | MEYERS GRADE RD / HWY 1 |
| 21 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | FORT |
| 20 September 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 11 acres | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | SEAVIEW 2 |
Mines and quarries near this property
7 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of SS POMONA (Shipwreck): 4 occurrences, 1 unknown, 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Mercury, Calcium, Calcium, Iron, Manganese, Silica. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aho Mine | Calcium, Iron, Manganese, Silica | Past Producer | 1924 | |
| Hooper Ranch | Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Kohlman Gulch | Calcium | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Prospect | Mercury | Occurrence | ||
| Aho Mine | Manganese | Producer | Rhodochrosite | |
| Hayden Prospect | Manganese | Occurrence | ||
| Hayden Prospect | Manganese | Unknown | 1926 |
Storms near this property
5 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jenner, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2005 and 2017: 3 debris flow, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2005 | Tornado (F1) | Jenner | $150,000 | An F1 tornado ripped through a homestead and portions of three historic barns on the Sonoma Coast - just north of the town of Jenner. One barn was completely destroyed and the two others sustained moderate damage. A glass patio attached to the main house was also completely destroyed. |
| February 2015 | Heavy Rain | Jenner | $25,000 | A fuel tanker crashed in heavy rain on Highway 1 North of Jenner in Sonoma County. The tanker leaked about 9,000 gallons of diesel into the ocean. |
| December 2012 | Debris Flow | Jenner | $15,000 | Highway 1 was closed north of Jenner due to a significant mud and rock slide blocking the lanes of the road. |
| February 2017 | Debris Flow | Jenner | - | Mud slide across NB lane and part of SB lane SR1. |
| February 2017 | Debris Flow | Jenner | - | Rock/mud slide reported at SR1 and Jenner Beach Trail. |
Maps showing this location
11 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.
- 1921 USGS Skaggs quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Fort Ross quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1944 USGS Fort Ross quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
- 1947 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Fort Ross quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Point Arena quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
- 1998 USGS Fort Ross quadrangle1:24000
Listed places nearby
2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Fort Ross Commander's House | 0.3 miles | 1970 |
 | Fort Ross | 0.3 miles | 1966 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 07000306 in Record Group 79. |
| Sonoma County | All 73 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.