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Photograph of Orange Lawn
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Orange Lawn

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

“The Orange Lawn, also known as the Young Mansion, is a historic residence located in the Sonoma, California. Built in 1870 by Daniel and Maria Young, it is known for its 19th-century Italianate architecture.”

Wikipedia article Orange Lawn, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 73 National Register listings published here for Sonoma County · listed in 2008 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 645 Charles Van Damme Way, Sonoma, 95476
  • When was it listed? June 2008
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Sonoma
  • National Register reference number. 08000529 - 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 Orange Lawn, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet covering Orange Lawn, surveyed 1902

Fires near this property

284 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 284 fires within 5 miles of Orange Lawn between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,433 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 17 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/undetermined107
Equipment and vehicle use106
Debris and open burning19
Arson/incendiarism17
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Power generation/transmission/distribution12
Smoking5
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony1
Other causes1

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 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa Unitnot named
9 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa Unitnot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
9 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitCAVEDALE
8 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use1.4 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitARNOLD
8 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitHENSLEY
8 September 1992Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitSHERMAN
7 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitBARCELONA

Every fire recorded in Sonoma County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 28 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Orange Lawn: 17 past producers, 7 producers, 2 unknowns, 1 prospect. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Diatomite, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Stage Gulch Quarry , Inc.Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed LocationGeothermalOccurrence
FelderDiatomiteProducerSedimentary
FelderDiatomitePast Producer
Mt Pisgah VineyardDiatomiteUnknown
Cannon QuarryStoneProducer
Cannon QuarryStonePast Producer
FelderStoneProducer
QuarryStoneProducer
QuarryStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Sonoma County

Storms near this property

9 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sonoma, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 5 flood, 2 heavy rain, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. The reports record 3 injuries. 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
February 1998Flash FloodSonoma1 hurt, $200,000no account filed
December 1996Tornado (F0)Sonoma1 hurt, $500no account filed
January 1998Heavy RainSonoma1 hurtno account filed
December 2008Heavy RainSonoma$25,000Heavy rain caused a fatality of a 32 year-old man when his vehicle collided with another vehicle. Highways 116 and 121 were closed for about three hours after the collision.
February 2024FloodSonoma-California Route 12 was closed until 8 AM due to flooding from Fremont Drive to Watmaugh Road.
February 2019FloodSonoma-CHP reports standing water in lane at Hwy 116 and Arnold Rd.
February 2019FloodSonoma-Flooding on CA-12 from Watmaugh Rd to CA-121 at Millerick Rd. All roads remain closed in both directions.
February 2019FloodSonoma-Roadway flooding in southbound lane of Arnold Dr near SR 116.
February 2019FloodSonoma-CHP reports a severe traffic alert and flooding on CA-12 from Watmaugh Rd to CA-121 at Millerick Rd, all lanes closed in both directions.

Every storm recorded in Sonoma County

Maps showing this location

10 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Sonoma Grammar School0.4 miles1980
Sonoma Valley Woman's Club0.5 miles2015
Sonoma Plaza0.6 miles1975
Sonoma Plaza (Boundary Increase)0.7 miles1992
Sonoma Depot0.8 miles1975
Sonoma Plaza (Boundary Increase)0.8 miles1992

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 08000529 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sonoma CountyAll 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.