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One of 21 National Register listings published here for El Dorado County · listed in 2017 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Georgetown Civil War Armory
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1891.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 6259 Main St., Georgetown, 95634
- When was it listed? September 2017
- Category. building
- Census division. North El Dorado
- National Register reference number. 100001601 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
466 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 466 fires within 5 miles of Georgetown Civil War Armory between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,437 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 29 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 136 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 135 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 82 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 29 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 21 |
| Natural | 17 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 16 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 15 |
| Smoking | 8 |
| Other causes | 6 |
| Fireworks | 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 2015 | Smoking | under an acre | Amador-El Dorado Unit | CROZIER |
| 9 September 2014 | Other causes | under an acre | Amador-El Dorado Unit | MILED |
| 8 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Amador-El Dorado Unit | LONGVIEW |
| 7 September 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Central California District | AMERICAN |
| 6 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Eldorado National Forest | WENTWORTH |
| 6 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 6 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Eldorado National Forest | SHOEMAKER |
| 5 September 1998 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Central California District | GRAY |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 459 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 459 workings within 5 miles of Georgetown Civil War Armory: 223 occurrences, 118 past producers, 114 unknowns, 3 producers. 3 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| El Dorado | Copper, Gold, Silver, Zinc, Nickel | Past Producer | Replacement | |
| French Hill | Gold, Asbestos | Occurrence | ||
| French Hill | Gold, Arsenic | Unknown | ||
| Green | Chromium, Gold | Producer | Chromite, Gold | |
| Iron Crown | Gold, Copper | Occurrence | ||
| Ruby Consolidated | Gold, Chromium | Occurrence | Chromite, Gold | |
| Sheppard Mine | Chromium, Iron | Past Producer | 1916, 1917 | |
| B.C.A. Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Hummingbird Ranch | Stone | Occurrence | ||
| Hummingbird Ranch | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown |
Storms near this property
1 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Georgetown, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2017: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2017 | Hail | Georgetown | $1,000 | Large amounts of small hail were reported covering the ground like snow in Georgetown. Photos on Twitter also showed hail completely covering the ground at nearby Garden Valley. This hail created very slippery driving conditions on area roads. |
Maps showing this location
11 surveysUnited 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 Placerville quadrangle1:125000
- 1892 USGS Placerville quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Placerville quadrangle1:125000 - 9 printings
- 1947 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
- 1949 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
- 1950 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
- 1976 USGS Placerville quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
Listed places nearby
2 within 8 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coloma Community Hall | 6.4 miles | 2025 | |
 | Coloma | 7.8 miles | 1966 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100001601 in Record Group 79. |
| El Dorado County | All 21 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.