Kirkwood Lake Tract

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1889.

From the record

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Amador County · listed in 2009 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. 1/2 mile N. of CA 88 along the shoreline of Lake Kirkwood on the Eldorado National Forest, Pioneer, 95666
When was it listed? December 2009
Category. district
Also known as. Recreation Residence Tracts in the National Forests of California from 1906-1959
Census division. Pine Grove-Silver Lake
National Register reference number. 09001054 - 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

171 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 171 fires within 5 miles of Kirkwood Lake Tract between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,489 acres in total. 88 started naturally. 1 was 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
Natural	88
Recreation and ceremony	46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	19
Debris and open burning	8
Smoking	6
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
9 September 1999	Natural	1.5 acres	Eldorado National Forest	FORK
9 September 1999	Natural	10 acres	Eldorado National Forest	JAKE
7 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Eldorado National Forest	MARGARET
6 September 2017	Natural	under an acre	Eldorado National Forest	WOODS
5 September 2013	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit	ROUND
5 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Eldorado National Forest	not named
4 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Eldorado National Forest	BUTTE
3 September 2010	Natural	under an acre	Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit	DARDANELLES

Every fire recorded in Amador County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Kirkwood Lake Tract: 5 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Silver, Copper, Copper, Lead. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Round Top	Gold, Silver, Copper	Past Producer
Round Top	Gold, Copper, Lead	Prospect
Twin Lakes Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown
Lost Cabin	Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead	Past Producer	Chalcopyrite, Pyrite
Lost Cabin	Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead	Past Producer
Mayhea Ranch	Gold	Past Producer
Unidentified Mine	Gold	Past Producer	Gold

Every working recorded in Amador County

Storms near this property

4 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pioneer, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2013 and 2022: 3 flood, 1 hail. 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
December 2022	Flood	Pioneer	-	California Highway Patrol reported roadway flooding near Pioneer School this morning, at SR88 and Defender Grade Road. Some rainfall totals over 24 hours were 3.44 inches at Mount Zion, 3.10 inches at Fiddletown 3.5 SE and 2.88 inches at Pioneer.
April 2020	Flood	Pioneer	-	California Highway Patrol reported roadway flooding between State Route 88 and Raven Road in Pioneer, CA. Eastbound lanes are completely flooded. Westbound lanes are partially flooded.
February 2019	Flood	Pioneer	-	Caltrans reported that both lanes of the road were flooded. At 10:46am Caltrans reported that the flooding was caused by debris build up.
March 2013	Hail	Pioneer	-	Thunderstorms developed in Northern San Joaquin Valley and moved into the Southern Sacramento Valley and Motherlode. At approximately 1:00 AM PDT, a severe thunderstorm moved through Pioneer and dropped quarter size hail. A citizen reported the hail size and image to KCRA media.

Every storm recorded in Amador County

Maps showing this location

12 surveys

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.

1889 USGS Pyramid Peak quadrangle1:125000
1891 USGS Pyramid Peak quadrangle1:125000
1895 USGS Pyramid Peak quadrangle1:125000 - 2 printings
1896 USGS Pyramid Peak quadrangle1:125000 - 7 printings
1947 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Silver Lake quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1957 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1976 USGS Placerville quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1979 USGS Caples Lake quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1992 USGS Caples Lake quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 09001054 in Record Group 79.
Amador County	All 22 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.