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One of 10 National Register listings published here for Sierra County · listed in 2024 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Sierra City School
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1891.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 418 Main Street (California Route 49), Sierra City, 96125
- When was it listed? January 2024
- Category. building
- Census division. West Sierra
- National Register reference number. 100009718 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1891 to 2000The ground this property stands on, surveyed 109 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
79 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Sierra City School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,164 acres in total. 34 started naturally. None was 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 34 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 16 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2017 | Natural | under an acre | Tahoe National Forest | BUTTES |
| 8 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Tahoe National Forest | MILTON |
| 6 September 2017 | Natural | under an acre | Tahoe National Forest | AUSTIN |
| 20 September 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Tahoe National Forest | SIERRA |
| 2 September 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Tahoe National Forest | AHART |
| 19 September 2017 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Tahoe National Forest | CHAPMAN |
| 19 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,114 acres | Tahoe National Forest | BASSETTS |
| 14 September 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Tahoe National Forest | SIERRA |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 158 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 158 workings within 5 miles of Sierra City School: 74 past producers, 34 occurrences, 28 prospects, 13 unknowns. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Chromium, Copper, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chipps | Gold, Molybdenum | Prospect | ||
| Lloyd and Milward | Asbestos | Occurrence | ||
| Phoenix | Gold, Lead, Copper | Past Producer | Chalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Pyrite | |
| Sierra Buttes | Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead | Past Producer | Gold, Marcasite, Pyrite | |
| Colombo-Bullion Group | Gold, Lead | Past Producer | Galena, Gold, Pyrite | |
| Sovereign | Gold, Lead | Past Producer | Galena, Gold, Pyrite | |
| Columbo-Bullion Group | Gold, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Devine | Gold, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Doodle Bag | Gold, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Occurrence | Gold, Silver | Occurrence |
Maps showing this location
11 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.
- 1891 USGS Downieville quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Downieville quadrangle1:125000
- 1895 USGS Downieville quadrangle1:125000
- 1896 USGS Downieville quadrangle1:125000
- 1897 USGS Downieville quadrangle1:125000 - 7 printings
- 1955 USGS Sierra City quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
- 1958 USGS Chico quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Chico quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Portola quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Sierra City quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 2000 USGS Sierra City quadrangle1:24000
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100009718 in Record Group 79. |
| Sierra County | All 10 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.