Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1891.
From the record
“The Commercial Row-Brickelltown Historic District is a historic district in downtown Truckee, California. Developed from 1870 to 1930, the district includes the significant parts of Truckee's early commercial district.”
Wikipedia article Commercial Row-Brickelltown Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 22 National Register listings published here for Nevada County · listed in 2009 · category: District.
National Register reference number.09000803- 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
290 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 290 fires within 5 miles of Commercial Row-Brickelltown Historic District
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 772 acres in total. 33 started naturally. 13 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
86
Recreation and ceremony
76
Natural
33
Equipment and vehicle use
32
Debris and open burning
18
Misuse of fire by a minor
14
Arson/incendiarism
13
Smoking
12
Power generation/transmission/distribution
4
Fireworks
2
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
6 workings within 5 miles of Commercial Row-Brickelltown Historic District: 5 producers, 1 past producer.
5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Pumice. 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
Truckee, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 9 hail, 9 heavy rain, 1 flood, 1 lightning.
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.
A 71-yr-old man was struck and killed by lightning during an early morning thunderstorm at Donner Memorial State Park just west of Truckee, CA. He had been camping with family in the Park and was outside in an area of tall trees.
A COOP observer station (BOCC1 - Boca Reservoir) located 1.0 mi SSW of Boca Reservoir, CA, a CoCORAHS station (CA-NV-51 Truckee) located 2.0 mi N of Truckee, CA, and a CO-OP Observer station (FARC1 Floriston) located 2.0 mi NNW of Floriston, CA, reported 24 hour rainfall/liquid totals of 3.22 inches, 2.98 inches, and 2.52 inches respectively.
A CoCORAHS station (CA-NV-51 Truckee) located 2.0 mi N of Truckee, CA, and a CO-OP Observer station (BOCC1) located 1.0 mi SSW of Boca Reservoir, CA, reported 24 hour rainfall/liquid totals of 1.0 inches and 0.68 inches respectively.
A Local Official located at 6.0 mi W of Truckee, CA, a CoCORAHS station (CA-NV-51 Truckee) located 2.0 mi N of Truckee, CA, and a CO-OP Observer located 3.0 mi E of Truckee, CA, at the Truckee-Tahoe Airport (KTVL) reported 24 hour rainfall/liquid totals of 2.07 inches, 1.14 inches, and 0.96 inches respectively.
COCORAHS Station (CA-NV-51) located 2.0 mi N Truckee, CA, and CO-OP observer located 1.0 mi SSW of Boca Reservoir, CA, reported 24 hour heavy rainfall totals of 5.57 and 4.62 inches respectively during the period from 12/31/22 07:00 LST through 1/1/23 07:00 LST.
Mesonet TADC1 2 miles northeast of Donner Peak (elevation 7399 feet) reported 1.04 inches of rainfall in a 26-hour period from 3 October 1133PST to 4 October 1333PST.
Heavy rainfall over Nevada County caused river and creek levels to rise. Some 24-hour rainfall totals included:||5 miles WNW of Truckee, 2.57 inches of rain caused minor street flooding; |Donner Lake HADS site 5 miles west of Truckee (elev. 5924 ft), 1.87 inches; and |Independence Creek SNOTEL (elev. 6500 ft), 1.30 inches.
Nevada County Sheriff reported "large" hail on Interstate 80 between Truckee and Donner Summit. Traffic was temporarily stopped. No confirmed reports of hail size other than Doppler Radar estimates exceeding 1.00 inch.
United 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.
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.
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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