Davis Mill

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1891.

From the record

“The Davis Mill is a historic stamp mill located off of North Bloomfield Road northeast of Nevada City, California. The mill served the Randolph Mine, a small gold mine run by the Davis family, from 1915 to 1940.”
Wikipedia article Davis Mill (Nevada City, California), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Nevada County · listed in 2010 · 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. off North Bloomfield Road; 3 miles NE of Nevada City, Nevada City, 95959
When was it listed? April 2010
Category. building
Census division. Nevada City
National Register reference number. 10000157 - 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

1891 to 2000

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 109 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Davis Mill, surveyed 2000

Topographic sheet covering Davis Mill, surveyed 1891

Fires near this property

491 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 491 fires within 5 miles of Davis Mill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 461 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 28 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	185
Debris and open burning	117
Equipment and vehicle use	80
Arson/incendiarism	28
Misuse of fire by a minor	21
Recreation and ceremony	21
Smoking	15
Power generation/transmission/distribution	13
Natural	8
Other causes	3

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 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Central California District	UNNAMED FIRE 1886
7 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Nevada-Yuba-Placer Unit	5 MILE
7 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	Nevada-Yuba-Placer Unit	PASQUALE
7 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12 acres	Central California District	PURDON
6 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
5 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9.0 acres	Nevada-Yuba-Placer Unit	CANYON
5 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Tahoe National Forest	GRAVE
5 September 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Nevada-Yuba-Placer Unit	INSLEY

Every fire recorded in Nevada County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 530 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 530 workings within 5 miles of Davis Mill: 223 past producers, 205 occurrences, 91 unknowns, 7 producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Chromium, Copper, Silver. 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
Banner and Central	Gold, Copper, Silver, Lead, Tungsten	Past Producer	Gold
Canada Hill	Gold, Silver, Copper, Zinc, Lead, Antimony, Arsenic, Tin	Past Producer	Chalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Pyrite, Sphalerite, Stibnite
Champion Con Qtz	Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc	Past Producer	Underground
Gold Hill	Gold, Copper, Lead, Zinc	Past Producer	Chalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Hussey	Copper, Lead, Silver, Gold	Past Producer
Mountaineer	Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper	Past Producer	Chalcopyrite, Gold, Pyrite
Murchie	Gold, Lead, Copper, Silver, Zinc	Past Producer	Galena, Gold, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Murchie Mine	Gold, Copper, Lead, Silver, Zinc	Past Producer
National	Gold, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Arsenic	Past Producer	Gold
North Banner Co	Gold, Lead, Molybdenum, Silver	Unknown

Every working recorded in Nevada County

Storms near this property

9 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nevada City, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 2013 and 2025: 5 flood, 3 heavy rain, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
February 2017	Flood	Nevada City	$3,560,000	HWY 49 was closed north of Nevada City, from Newtown Rd. to Tyler Foote Rd. due to multiple slip outs.
December 2016	Flood	Nevada City	$30,000	Roadway flooding was reported in Nevada County as creeks went over their banks. This also included flooding into a downtown Nevada City garage and into residential backyards.
February 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Nevada City	$10,000	A power outage in Nevada City affected 1,278 customers on the east side of Hwy 20 and another 54 on Cement Hill.
December 2025	Flood	Nevada City	-	California Highway Patrol reported a mud and rock slide on N Bloomfield Road between Wet Hill and Highway 49 from heavy rain.
February 2024	Flood	Nevada City	-	California Highway Patrol reported completely flooded roads along Highway 49 northbound at State Route 20.
September 2019	Heavy Rain	Nevada City	-	The public reported mud and rocks in the roadway on highway 49 between Nevada City on the South Yuba River. Time is estimated by radar.
September 2019	Flood	Nevada City	-	The local news paper reported that multiple members of the public were sending in reports of localized street flooding in Nevada City. This particular point does not necessarily reflect the exact location of flooding and the time of this report is based on radar and observations.
December 2016	Heavy Rain	Nevada City	-	An emergency manager in Nevada City reported heavy rain, 7.26 over 24 hours.
September 2013	Heavy Rain	Nevada City	-	Showers developed in a southwest to northeast line from southwest of Stockton area to northeast of Quincy. Trained spotters reported 1.50 of heavy rainfall as convective showers trained over the area all day long on Sept 2nd. Flooding was reported at 10:43 am PST along Highway 49 in Alta Sierra. Flooding was also reported at 10:46 am PST along Highways 49 and 20 in Nevada City. Rain continued through the early morning Sept. 3rd.

Every storm recorded in Nevada County

Maps showing this location

14 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.

1891 USGS Colfax quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Colfax quadrangle1:125000
1894 USGS Colfax quadrangle1:125000
1898 USGS Colfax quadrangle1:125000
1900 USGS Colfax quadrangle1:125000
1902 USGS Colfax quadrangle1:125000 - 7 printings
1938 USGS Colfax quadrangle1:125000 - 3 printings
1949 USGS North Bloomfield quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
1950 USGS Alleghany quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1951 USGS North Bloomfield quadrangle1:24000
1958 USGS Chico quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1960 USGS Chico quadrangle1:250000
1977 USGS Truckee quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
2000 USGS North Bloomfield 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
Martin Luther Marsh House	1.9 miles	1973
Nevada City Free Public Library	2.3 miles	1990
Ott's Assay Office	2.4 miles	1975
Nevada Brewery	2.4 miles	1985
Nevada City Downtown Historic District	2.4 miles	1985
National Exchange Hotel	2.5 miles	1973

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 10000157 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Nevada 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.