Torpedo Storehouse-Torpedo (Mine) Assembly Building & Long Range Accuracy Storage Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. 17 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.

From the record

One of 202 National Register listings published here for San Francisco County · listed in 2008 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Torpedo Storehouse--Torpedo (Mine) Assembly Building & Long Range Accuracy Storage Building - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. N. of I80, Yerba Buena Island, 94130
When was it listed? June 2008
Category. building
Census division. Downtown-Northeast Neighborhoods-Treasure Island
National Register reference number. 08000086 - 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.

Fires near this property

122 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 122 fires within 5 miles of Torpedo Storehouse-Torpedo (Mine) Assembly Building & Long Range Accuracy Storage Building between 1999 and 2020, burning about 260 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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	76
Misuse of fire by a minor	16
Smoking	11
Arson/incendiarism	9
Recreation and ceremony	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
6 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
6 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
6 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
5 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	San Mateo-Santa Cruz Unit	not named
30 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
3 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Golden Gate National Recreation Area	MEADOW
3 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
23 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named

Every fire recorded in San Francisco County

Maps showing this location

17 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.

1895 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:62500
1899 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1915 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1947 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS Oakland West quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1955 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1957 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Oakland West quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
1960 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1985 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
1993 USGS Oakland West quadrangle1:24000

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Senior Officers Quarters Historic District, Yerba Buena Island	0.3 miles	2008
Quarters 1, Yerba Buena Island, Naval Training Station	0.3 miles	1991
Quarters 10 and Building 267, Yerba Buena Island	0.3 miles	2008
Palace of Fine and Decorative Arts, Treasure Island	0.5 miles	2008
Hall of Transportation, Treasure Island	0.5 miles	2008
Yerba Buena Island Lighthouse	0.5 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 08000086 in Record Group 79.
San Francisco County	All 202 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.