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One of 64 National Register listings published here for Monterey County · listed in 2022 · category: Structure.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Pinnacles National Park Roads
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1921.
The listing
- Address. 5000 East Entrance Rd. Pinnacles National Park (PINN), Paicines, 95043
- When was it listed? November 2022
- Category. structure
- National Register reference number. 100008339 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
42 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Pinnacles National Park Roads between 1992 and 2019, burning about 4,898 acres in total. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 17 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 41 acres | San Benito-Monterey Unit | LA GLORIA |
| 25 September 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Pinnacles National Park | NORTH WEST |
| 25 September 2001 | Natural | under an acre | San Benito-Monterey Unit | HWY-25#3 |
| 12 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | San Benito-Monterey Unit | PGE 21 |
| 5 August 1994 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1,154 acres | Pinnacles National Park | PINNACLES |
| 31 August 2015 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5.3 acres | San Benito-Monterey Unit | AIRLINE |
| 30 August 2007 | Natural | 486 acres | San Benito-Monterey Unit | QUIEN |
| 3 August 1998 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2,797 acres | Pinnacles National Park | STONEWALL |
Mines and quarries near this property
8 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Pinnacles National Park Roads: 5 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Molybdenum, Copper, Iron, Gold, Silver. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chalone and Defiance Mines | Gold | Prospect | ||
| Copper Mountain | Copper, Gold, Silver, Molybdenum | Past Producer | Chalcopyrite, Molybdenite | |
| Pinnacles National Monument | Uranium | Occurrence | ||
| Copper Mountain Mining Co. | Copper | Past Producer | ||
| San Benito Deposit | Iron | Occurrence | ||
| San Benito Deposit | Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Vancouver Pinnacles | Molybdenum | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Vancouver Pinnacles Molybdenum | Molybdenum | Occurrence | Molybdenite |
Maps showing this location
13 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.
- 1921 USGS Metz quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
- 1940 USGS Metz quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Metz quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Santa Cruz quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Santa Cruz quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Santa Cruz quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Santa Cruz quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Santa Cruz quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS North Chalone Peak quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1974 USGS Monterey quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Point Sur quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings
- 1995 USGS North Chalone Peak quadrangle1:24000
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100008339 in Record Group 79. |
| Monterey County | All 64 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.