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One of 73 National Register listings published here for Sonoma County · listed in 2022 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Freestone Store
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1935.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 500 Bohemian Hwy., Freestone, 95472
- When was it listed? February 2022
- Category. building
- Census division. Russian River-Sonoma Coast
- National Register reference number. 100007484 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1935 to 1983The ground this property stands on, surveyed 48 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
241 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 241 fires within 5 miles of Freestone Store between 1992 and 2020, burning about 418 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 81 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 76 |
| Debris and open burning | 41 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 13 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 11 |
| Smoking | 8 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| 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 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | HWY 1 JENNER |
| 8 September 2004 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | BARNETT |
| 7 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | HWY, CDF TAC 6 4 |
| 7 September 1998 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | HIGHWAY 1 |
| 6 September 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | BODEGA |
| 6 September 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | GRATON |
| 5 September 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | BARNETT |
| 4 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | BARNETT |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 13 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Freestone Store: 7 unknowns, 4 occurrences, 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Chromium, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Mercury, Stone. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clark Quarry | Stone | Unknown | ||
| Unnamed Location | Garnet | Unknown | ||
| Unnamed Location | Copper | Unknown | ||
| Bloomfield Quarry and Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Graham Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Meeker Ocher Deposit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown | ||
| Unnamed Prospect | Mercury | Unknown | ||
| Unnamed Prospect | Mercury | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Prospect | Mercury | Unknown | ||
| Baldrini Prospect | Chromium | Unknown |
Storms near this property
3 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Freestone, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2018 and 2024: 3 flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2024 | Flood | Freestone | - | Valley Ford-Freestone Road was closed between Bodega Highway and State Route 1. |
| December 2024 | Flood | Freestone | - | Vehicle stuck in floodwaters on Bodega Highway near Freestone. |
| April 2018 | Flood | Freestone | - | Roadway flooding reported at Freestone Valley Ford Rd and Bodega Hwy. |
Maps showing this location
10 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.
- 1935 USGS Sebastopol quadrangle1:48000
- 1942 USGS Sebastopol quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
- 1947 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Sebastopol quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Valley Ford quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Napa quadrangle1:100000
Listed places nearby
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Hinds Hotel | 0.2 miles | 1979 |
 | Watson School | 1.6 miles | 1978 |
 | Gold Ridge Farm | 4.8 miles | 1978 |
 | Hicks House | 5.2 miles | 1987 |
 | George A. Strout House | 5.3 miles | 1980 |
 | Sebastopol Depot of the Petaluma and Santa Rosa Railway | 5.5 miles | 1996 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100007484 in Record Group 79. |
| 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.
- 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.