Baker House

Built in 1968. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1921.

From the record

“The Baker House in Sea Ranch, California was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018. It was designed by architect William Turnbull Jr. and was built in 1968.”
Wikipedia article Baker House (Sea Ranch, California), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 73 National Register listings published here for Sonoma County · listed in 2018 · category: Building · built in 1968, by William Turnbull.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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. 35292 Timber Ridge Rd., The Sea Ranch, 95497
When was it listed? December 2018
Category. building
Census division. Russian River-Sonoma Coast
When was it built? 1968
Architect. William Turnbull
National Register reference number. 100003234 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

86 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Baker House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 295 acres in total. 1 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	34
Equipment and vehicle use	25
Debris and open burning	14
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Smoking	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Natural	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 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	HWY 1
7 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	SORCERER WOOD THE_SEA_R
7 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	BOSUN'S
3 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Northern California District	RICHARDSON
22 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	HWY 1
21 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	STEWART
21 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	RANCH
13 September 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	FRANCHINI

Every fire recorded in Sonoma County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Baker House: 3 producers, 1 prospect, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Manganese, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gualala Bar	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Twin Bridges Section 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Dillon and Seefeldt	Manganese	Prospect
Dillon and Seefeldt Deposit	Manganese	Producer
Wallace Prospect	Manganese	Occurrence	1918

Every working recorded in Sonoma County

Maps showing this location

10 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.

1921 USGS Plantation quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Stewarts Point quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1944 USGS Stewarts Point quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1947 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1962 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Stewarts Point quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Point Arena quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

4 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
Mini-Mod #3	0.1 miles	2026
Hines House	0.3 miles	2021
Condominium 1	1.0 miles	2005
Knipp and Stengel Ranch Barn	2.5 miles	1987

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100003234 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sonoma County	All 73 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.