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One of 117 National Register listings published here for Santa Clara County · listed in 2007 · category: Site.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Highway 152 Tree Row
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1917.
The listing
- Address. CA 152, Gilroy, 95020
- When was it listed? July 2007
- Category. site
- Census division. Llagas-Uvas
- National Register reference number. 07000635 - 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
1917 to 1978The ground this property stands on, surveyed 61 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
614 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 614 fires within 5 miles of Highway 152 Tree Row between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,895 acres in total. None started naturally. 56 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 | 294 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 172 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 56 |
| Smoking | 29 |
| Debris and open burning | 25 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 20 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 10 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 9 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 9 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Santa Clara Unit | ELAM |
| 9 September 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Santa Clara Unit | MASTEN #13 |
| 8 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 8 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Santa Clara Unit | HOWLSCLAW |
| 8 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 6.0 acres | Santa Clara Unit | KERN |
| 8 September 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Santa Clara Unit | SANTA TERESA BL / MILLER |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 14 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Highway 152 Tree Row: 6 past producers, 2 prospects, 2 occurrences, 2 unknowns. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Chromium, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Dimension. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Howson Pit | Stone, Dimension | Unknown | ||
| Unnamed Location | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Location | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| Laurel Lake Ranch | Chromium | Past Producer | ||
| Laurel Lake Ranch Deposits | Chromium | Past Producer | 1917, 1920 | |
| Mcfarland Chromite | Chromium | Prospect | ||
| Blenda | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Brem Brs. | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Prospect | ||
| Howson Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Sand & Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary |
Storms near this property
14 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gilroy, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 2007 and 2024: 7 hail, 5 flood, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 death. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2011 | Flood | Gilroy | 1 killed | Heavy rain caused the flood control channel of the Gilroy creek near Forest Street to rise to near capacity. Just before noon firefighters and police arrived at the scene where they pulled a 43-year-old male from the water. His death was determined to be from drowning. |
| April 2007 | Tornado (EF0) | Gilroy | $1,000 | A small tornado spun up near Gavilan College in Santa Clara County - about 2 miles southwest of Gilroy. The tornado touched down briefly and damaged an awning on a temporary trailer and tore apart a large tree - including several two-foot wide limbs ripped off at the trunk. |
| April 2024 | Flood | Old Gilroy | - | The right turn lane from Ferguson Road to California Route 152 was flooded. |
| March 2020 | Hail | Gilroy | - | Report of pea-sized hail in Gilroy. |
| March 2020 | Hail | Gilroy | - | Public called in to report pea-sized hail in Gilroy. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Old Gilroy | - | Tree down blocking roadway near Gilroy. |
| February 2018 | Hail | Gilroy | - | Pea sized hail reported near Gilroy. |
| January 2018 | Hail | Gilroy | - | Hail covering hwy 101 in Gilroy in front of the CHP station. |
| January 2018 | Hail | Gilroy | - | Pat Moore called to report his wife was in Gilroy and was getting 3/4 inch hail. |
| January 2017 | Flood | Old Gilroy | - | WB SR152 and Ferguson. Flood water in area. |
| February 2017 | Flood | Old Gilroy | - | Roadway flooded and now closed Frazier Lake Rd on SR152. |
| February 2014 | Flood | Old Gilroy | - | Roadway flooding reported over both lanes of State Road 152 between Canada and Ferguson. |
| October 2012 | Hail | Gilroy | - | At 3:40 PM an employee of the Santa Clara County OES observed a severe thunderstorm that produced large hail at his home. He measured hail from dime to quarter size that produced minor damage to plants around his home. |
| October 2012 | Hail | Gilroy | - | Spotters from the town of Gilroy in Santa Clara County reported that pea sized hail fell during a severe thunderstorm in the area. Hail accumulated up to depths of 2 inches across the area. Minor damage to vegetable plants was observed. |
Maps showing this location
10 surveysUnited States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
- 1917 USGS Morgan Hill quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
- 1939 USGS Morgan Hill quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1941 USGS Morgan Hill quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Gilroy quadrangle1:24000 - 7 printings
- 1956 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
- 1966 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Gilroy quadrangle1:24000
- 1978 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:100000
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Miller Red Barn | 1.6 miles | 2016 |
 | Wheeler Hospital | 2.0 miles | 1990 |
 | Gilroy Free Library | 2.2 miles | 1988 |
 | Christian Church of Gilroy | 2.2 miles | 1982 |
 | Edgar Holloway House | 2.3 miles | 1982 |
 | Old City Hall | 2.4 miles | 1975 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 07000635 in Record Group 79. |
| Santa Clara County | All 117 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.