BlockFrom the record
One of 24 National Register listings published here for Butte County · listed in 2019 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Mountain House Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1888.
The listing
- Address. 13465 Oroville-Quincy Hwy., Mountain House, 95916
- When was it listed? July 2019
- Category. district
- Census division. Feather Falls
- National Register reference number. 100004195 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1888 to 1994The ground this property stands on, surveyed 106 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Fires near this property
116 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 116 fires within 5 miles of Mountain House Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,922 acres in total. 36 started naturally. 10 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 36 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 20 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 19 |
| Debris and open burning | 15 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 10 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 9 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Plumas National Forest | MOUNTAIN HOUSE |
| 8 September 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Plumas National Forest | MALCOLM |
| 5 September 2017 | Natural | under an acre | Plumas National Forest | HAPHAZARD |
| 4 September 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Plumas National Forest | MILSAP |
| 4 September 1998 | Natural | 12 acres | Plumas National Forest | FORK |
| 3 September 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Plumas National Forest | MOUNTAIN HOUSE |
| 28 September 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Plumas National Forest | not named |
| 28 September 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Plumas National Forest | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 42 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 42 workings within 5 miles of Mountain House Historic District: 17 past producers, 13 unknowns, 12 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Chromium, Silver, Chromium, Iron. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Four L | Copper, Gold | Occurrence | ||
| Lone Star Claim | Chromium, Iron | Past Producer | 1916, 1941 | |
| Marble Creek Deposit | Limestone, Dimension, Marble, Dimension | Past Producer | ||
| Milsap Bar | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown | ||
| Mountain House Area | Nickel | Occurrence | 1957 | |
| Unnamed Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | ||
| Annie Mae | Gold, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Galen | Gold, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Success | Gold, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Big Bend Occurrence | Chromium | Past Producer | 1917, 1918 |
Maps showing this location
14 surveysUnited 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.
- 1888 USGS Bidwell Bar quadrangle1:125000
- 1891 USGS Bidwell Bar quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Bidwell Bar quadrangle1:125000
- 1895 USGS Bidwell Bar quadrangle1:125000
- 1897 USGS Bidwell Bar quadrangle1:125000 - 7 printings
- 1947 USGS Brush Creek quadrangle1:24000
- 1948 USGS Big Bend Mtn quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
- 1949 USGS Brush Creek quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Brush Creek quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS Chico quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Chico quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Brush Creek quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Chico quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
- 1994 USGS Brush Creek quadrangle1:24000
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100004195 in Record Group 79. |
| Butte County | All 24 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.