Benicia City Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1896.

From the record

One of 38 National Register listings published here for Solano County · listed in 2021 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Bounded by Riverhill Dr., Riverview Terr., Shirley Dr., and Incline Pl., Benicia City, 94510
When was it listed? February 2021
Category. district
Census division. Vallejo
National Register reference number. 100006087 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1896 to 1983

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Benicia City Cemetery, surveyed 1983

Topographic sheet covering Benicia City Cemetery, surveyed 1896

Fires near this property

390 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 390 fires within 5 miles of Benicia City Cemetery between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,144 acres in total. None started naturally. 50 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	207
Equipment and vehicle use	55
Arson/incendiarism	50
Smoking	28
Misuse of fire by a minor	27
Debris and open burning	10
Power generation/transmission/distribution	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Recreation and ceremony	1
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 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Santa Clara Unit	FOUR
8 September 2005	Smoking	1.0 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
7 September 2011	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Santa Clara Unit	not named
7 September 2010	Smoking	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
6 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.3 acres	Santa Clara Unit	not named
6 September 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	18 acres	Santa Clara Unit	BRICKYARD
6 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	SKY VALLEY
5 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named

Every fire recorded in Solano County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Benicia City Cemetery: 10 unknowns, 5 occurrences, 5 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Mercury, Stone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Unnamed Location	Clay	Occurrence
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Goodyear Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Producer
Main Mine & Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Martinez	Stone, Dimension	Occurrence
Mcnears	Stone, Dimension	Occurrence
Parrish Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Port Costa Shale Quarrys	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Borges Prospect	Mercury	Occurrence	Cinnabar

Every working recorded in Solano County

Maps showing this location

16 surveys

United 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.

1896 USGS Carquinez Strait quadrangle1:62500
1898 USGS Karquines quadrangle1:62500
1901 USGS Carquinez quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1901 USGS Karquines quadrangle1:62500
1902 USGS Napa quadrangle1:125000 - 6 printings
1940 USGS Carquinez Strait quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1942 USGS Carquinez quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1950 USGS Benicia quadrangle1:24000
1952 USGS Benicia quadrangle1:24000
1958 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1959 USGS Benicia quadrangle1:24000 - 8 printings
1962 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Napa quadrangle1:100000

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
STAMBOUL (Whaling Bark)	0.3 miles	1988
Old Masonic Hall	0.5 miles	1972
Crooks Mansion	0.6 miles	1978
Benicia Capitol State Historic Park	0.6 miles	1971
Joseph Fischer House	0.7 miles	1979
Carr House	0.9 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100006087 in Record Group 79.
Solano County	All 38 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.