Truckee Veterans Memorial Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1891.

From the record

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Nevada County · listed in 2021 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. 10214 High St., Truckee, 96161
When was it listed? July 2021
Category. building
Census division. Donner
National Register reference number. 100006720 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

263 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 263 fires within 5 miles of Truckee Veterans Memorial Building between 1992 and 2020, burning about 116 acres in total. 33 started naturally. 11 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
Recreation and ceremony	74
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	74
Natural	33
Equipment and vehicle use	29
Debris and open burning	15
Misuse of fire by a minor	12
Arson/incendiarism	11
Smoking	9
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Fireworks	2

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 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Nevada-Yuba-Placer Unit	DONNER PASS RD TRUCKEE_F
9 September 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Tahoe National Forest	SAWTOOTH
9 September 2013	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Nevada-Yuba-Placer Unit	AIRPORT
6 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Tahoe National Forest	SAWTOOTH
5 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Nevada-Yuba-Placer Unit	HIPPY
5 September 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Nevada-Yuba-Placer Unit	AIRPLANE
4 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	7.0 acres	Santa Clara Unit	COE
4 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest	GREY

Every fire recorded in Nevada 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 Truckee Veterans Memorial Building: 4 producers, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Pumice. 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
Red Rock Aggregates	Pumice	Producer
Cold Stream Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Martis Valley Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Sha-Neva-Plant No. 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Teichert Aggregates Truckee Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Nevada County

Storms near this property

20 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Truckee, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 9 hail, 9 heavy rain, 1 flood, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 death. 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
July 2012	Lightning	Truckee	1 killed	A 71-yr-old man was struck and killed by lightning during an early morning thunderstorm at Donner Memorial State Park just west of Truckee, CA. He had been camping with family in the Park and was outside in an area of tall trees.
June 2023	Hail	Truckee	$1,000	Trained weather spotter reported roughly an inch of accumulating hail (0.25 inch) in the Truckee, CA, area and along I-80.
February 2025	Heavy Rain	Truckee	-	A COOP observer station (BOCC1 - Boca Reservoir) located 1.0 mi SSW of Boca Reservoir, CA, a CoCORAHS station (CA-NV-51 Truckee) located 2.0 mi N of Truckee, CA, and a CO-OP Observer station (FARC1 Floriston) located 2.0 mi NNW of Floriston, CA, reported 24 hour rainfall/liquid totals of 3.22 inches, 2.98 inches, and 2.52 inches respectively.
February 2025	Heavy Rain	Truckee	-	A CoCORAHS station (CA-NV-51 Truckee) located 2.0 mi N of Truckee, CA, and a CO-OP Observer station (BOCC1) located 1.0 mi SSW of Boca Reservoir, CA, reported 24 hour rainfall/liquid totals of 1.0 inches and 0.68 inches respectively.
November 2024	Heavy Rain	Truckee	-	A Local Official located at 6.0 mi W of Truckee, CA, a CoCORAHS station (CA-NV-51 Truckee) located 2.0 mi N of Truckee, CA, and a CO-OP Observer located 3.0 mi E of Truckee, CA, at the Truckee-Tahoe Airport (KTVL) reported 24 hour rainfall/liquid totals of 2.07 inches, 1.14 inches, and 0.96 inches respectively.
September 2023	Heavy Rain	Truckee	-	A CoCoRaHS station (CA-NV-51) located 1.6 mi N of Truckee, CA, reported a total rainfall amount of 0.57 inches.
December 2022	Heavy Rain	Truckee	-	COCORAHS Station (CA-NV-51) located 2.0 mi N Truckee, CA, and CO-OP observer located 1.0 mi SSW of Boca Reservoir, CA, reported 24 hour heavy rainfall totals of 5.57 and 4.62 inches respectively during the period from 12/31/22 07:00 LST through 1/1/23 07:00 LST.
July 2018	Heavy Rain	Truckee	-	Mesonet station TKEC1, Truckee reported 1.22 inches of rainfall in a 6-hour period from 23 July 1033PST to 1633PST.
July 2018	Hail	Truckee	-	Public 1-mile west-northwest of Truckee reported quarter size hail via social media.
October 2018	Heavy Rain	Truckee	-	Mesonet TADC1 2 miles northeast of Donner Peak (elevation 7399 feet) reported 1.04 inches of rainfall in a 26-hour period from 3 October 1133PST to 4 October 1333PST.
May 2009	Heavy Rain	Truckee	-	Heavy rainfall over Nevada County caused river and creek levels to rise. Some 24-hour rainfall totals included:\|\|5 miles WNW of Truckee, 2.57 inches of rain caused minor street flooding; \|Donner Lake HADS site 5 miles west of Truckee (elev. 5924 ft), 1.87 inches; and \|Independence Creek SNOTEL (elev. 6500 ft), 1.30 inches.
February 2006	Heavy Rain	Truckee	-	A total of 5.27 inches of rain was reported at Donner Lake Dam.
May 1999	Hail	Truckee	-	Nevada County Sheriff reported "large" hail on Interstate 80 between Truckee and Donner Summit. Traffic was temporarily stopped. No confirmed reports of hail size other than Doppler Radar estimates exceeding 1.00 inch.
August 1998	Hail	Truckee	-	NWS spotter reported 1 inch hail along California Route 89 near Truckee CA. No damage reported.
July 2015	Hail	Truckee	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Truckee	-	no account filed
July 2002	Hail	Truckee	-	no account filed
July 2002	Flood	Truckee	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Truckee	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Truckee	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nevada County

Maps showing this location

12 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 Truckee quadrangle1:125000
1893 USGS Truckee quadrangle1:125000
1895 USGS Truckee quadrangle1:125000 - 9 printings
1932 USGS Truckee quadrangle1:96000
1940 USGS Truckee quadrangle1:125000 - 4 printings
1955 USGS Truckee quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1955 USGS Truckee quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
1958 USGS Chico quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1960 USGS Chico quadrangle1:250000
1977 USGS Truckee quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1992 USGS Truckee quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
2000 USGS Truckee quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

5 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
Kruger House	0.1 miles	1982
Commercial Row-Brickelltown Historic District	0.8 miles	2009
Donner Camp	1.8 miles	1966
Boca Dam	6.6 miles	1981
Summit Camp	7.2 miles

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100006720 in Record Group 79.
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.