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Niles Canyon Transcontinental Railroad Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1906.

From the record

“The Niles Canyon Railway (NCRy) (reporting mark NICX) is a heritage railway running on the first transcontinental railroad alignment (1866, 1869) through Niles Canyon, between Sunol and the Niles district of Fremont in the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area, in California, United States. The railway is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Niles Canyon Transcontinental Railroad Historic District.”

Wikipedia article Niles Canyon Railway, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 160 National Register listings published here for Alameda County · listed in 2010 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Fires near this property

321 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 321 fires within 5 miles of Niles Canyon Transcontinental Railroad Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,286 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 24 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/undetermined196
Equipment and vehicle use71
Arson/incendiarism24
Smoking9
Recreation and ceremony7
Debris and open burning5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2014Smokingunder an acreSanta Clara UnitPLEASANTON SUNOL RD / VER
9 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSanta Clara Unit84
9 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSanta Clara UnitWINERY
9 September 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSanta Clara UnitPG&E #5
8 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
8 September 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSanta Clara UnitTHE BOAT
7 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSanta Clara UnitPIONEER
7 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSanta Clara UnitLOVELAND

Every fire recorded in Alameda County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 47 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 47 workings within 5 miles of Niles Canyon Transcontinental Railroad Historic District: 21 past producers, 16 producers, 10 occurrences. 16 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Manganese. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Pleasanton DepositLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
Pleasonton DepositLimestone, GeneralProducerSedimentary
UnknownStoneOccurrenceGravel
Unnamed LocationStoneOccurrence
Unnamed LocationStoneOccurrence
Bellini QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Homestead DepositManganeseOccurrence
Isler MountainManganeseOccurrence
Mission Pass QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Mt. Hamilton DepositManganeseOccurrence

Every working recorded in Alameda County

Maps showing this location

12 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Thomas Foxwell Bachelder Barn1.8 miles1994
Elliston2.5 miles1985
Heathcote-MacKenzie House3.8 miles1991
California Nursery Co. Guest House4.3 miles1971
John W. Kottinger Adobe Barn4.4 miles1985
St. Raymond's Church5.7 miles2006

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 10000843 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Alameda CountyAll 160 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.