Navarro

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. 5 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1943.

From the record

“Navarro, or Navarro-by-the-Sea, a historic site in Mendocino County, California, on Navarro Beach Rd. near Albion, California, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. The listing was for two contributing buildings on 8.5 acres (3.4 ha).”
Wikipedia article Navarro (Albion, California), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 42 National Register listings published here for Mendocino County · listed in 2009 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Navarro Beach Rd., Albion, 95410
When was it listed? December 2009
Category. building
Census division. Mendocino
National Register reference number. 09001089 - 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

113 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 113 fires within 5 miles of Navarro between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,211 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 2 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	40
Debris and open burning	27
Equipment and vehicle use	22
Recreation and ceremony	7
Smoking	7
Natural	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Other causes	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
8 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Mendocino Unit	RIVER
8 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Mendocino Unit	ALBION
6 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Mendocino Unit	RIDGE
3 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Mendocino Unit	LIGHTNING 72
29 September 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Mendocino Unit	JARDIN
26 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Mendocino Unit	KINNEY
19 September 1992	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Mendocino Unit	HOFFER
18 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Mendocino Unit	RIVER

Every fire recorded in Mendocino County

Storms near this property

7 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Albion, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2017 and 2026: 5 flood, 2 heavy rain. 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
January 2017	Heavy Rain	Albion	$400,000	Multiple drainage issues near the Navarro River along Highway 1 and a log jam under the bridge requiring removal.
February 2025	Heavy Rain	Albion	$1,100	West bound lane of Highway 1 closed due to a slide from rainfall. \|Lat. 39.23N, Long. -123.77W.
January 2026	Flood	Albion	-	Heavy rain overwhelmed a culvert causing water to flow over the roadway on Highway 128 near Highway 1. Approximately two inches of water was over the roadway in both lanes.
February 2025	Flood	Albion	-	Highway 128 closed from Mile marker 0 to mile marker 12.6 due to flooding, 9 miles west southwest of Comptche, CA. Lat. 39.20N. Long. -123.75W.
January 2023	Flood	Albion	-	State route 128 was closed due to flooding.
January 2019	Flood	Albion	-	Highway 128 was closed near highway 1 due to flooding of the Navarro River.
April 2018	Flood	Albion	-	State Route 128 at State Route 1 was closed due to flooding.

Every storm recorded in Mendocino County

Maps showing this location

5 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.

1943 USGS Albion quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Ukiah quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS Albion quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS Ukiah quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1981 USGS Ukiah quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings

Listed places nearby

3 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
Albion River Bridge	2.2 miles	2017
Albion River Bridge	2.4 miles	2017
Jerome B. Ford House	8.0 miles	2010

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 09001089 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Mendocino County	All 42 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.
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.