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One of 73 National Register listings published here for Sonoma County · listed in 2024 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Belden-Birkhofer House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024. 11 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. 13555 Highway 116, Guerneville, 95446
- When was it listed? January 2024
- Category. building
- Census division. Russian River-Sonoma Coast
- National Register reference number. 100009749 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1935 to 1995The ground this property stands on, surveyed 60 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
412 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 412 fires within 5 miles of Belden-Birkhofer House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 206 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 31 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 | 189 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 62 |
| Debris and open burning | 50 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 31 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 26 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 20 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 16 |
| Smoking | 12 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | SUNSET |
| 8 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | VISTA |
| 8 September 2014 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | ONE SIXTEEN |
| 8 September 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | NEIDEAU |
| 8 September 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | ARMSTRONG |
| 8 September 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | RIO NIDO#1 |
| 7 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | MARTINELLI RD / RIVER RD |
| 7 September 2007 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | RIVERSIDE DR GUERNEVIL 4 |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 38 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 38 workings within 5 miles of Belden-Birkhofer House: 14 unknowns, 13 occurrences, 7 producers, 4 past producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Mercury, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Altamont Copper Group | Mercury, Copper | Occurrence | ||
| Wall Tract | Copper, Mercury | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Altamont | Copper | Occurrence | ||
| Altamont | Copper, Mercury | Unknown | ||
| Archer | Copper | Past Producer | Vein | |
| Archer Tract | Copper | Unknown | ||
| Sonoma Chrome Inc | Chromium | Past Producer | ||
| Sonoma Chrome, Inc. Deposit | Chromium | Past Producer | Chromite | |
| Unnamed Location | Chromium | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Location | Chromium | Occurrence |
Storms near this property
11 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Guerneville, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 7 flood, 1 heavy rain, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2024 | Flood | Guerneville | 1 killed | A 911 caller reported to Sonoma County dispatch that they had seen a car go into floodwaters near Mays Canyon Road and Highway 116. Rescue crews arrived and found the vehicle, and the driver was found dead. |
| January 2002 | Heavy Rain | Guerneville | $200,000 | no account filed |
| January 2024 | Flood | Guerneville | $10 | Localized flooding was reported in northern Guerneville. |
| January 2024 | Flood | Guerneville | $10 | Heavy rain caused flooding from Fife Creek at Sycamore Court Mobile Home Park. Three inches of water flooded a trailer in less than 20 minutes. Report Courtesy KGO television/ABC 7 San Francisco. |
| February 2019 | Flood | Guerneville | - | Vehicle stuck in water in front of the Guerneville Lodge near the Russian River. |
| February 2019 | Flood | Guerneville | - | The Russian River at Guerneville hit flood stage (32ft) at approximately 1600 hrs on February 26th, 2019. The gauge crested at 45.38 feet at 22:30 pm February 27th, 2019. Local law enforcement indicated the town of Guerneville became an island and was only accessible by boat or helicopter. The media reported approximately 4,000 structures were impacted by flood waters. The gauge did not fall below flood stage until after 1:30 pm on March 1st. |
| February 2019 | Flood | Guerneville | - | CHP put up road closed signs Mill Ct and Mill St. |
| January 2018 | Debris Flow | Guerneville | - | One inch deep slide blocking roadway at SR116 and Riverside Drive. |
| January 2017 | Flash Flood | Guerneville | - | Flooding east of 5th street. Fife Creek overflowing. |
| February 2017 | Flood | Guerneville | - | Armstrong Woods Rd/Morningside Dr. |
| December 2003 | Hail | Guerneville | - | no account filed |
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.
- 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 Camp Meeker quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
- 1954 USGS Sebastopol quadrangle1:62500
- 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
- 1995 USGS Camp Meeker quadrangle1:24000
Listed places nearby
5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Guerneville Bridge | 0.4 miles | 1989 |
| Pond Farm Pottery | 3.6 miles | ||
 | Pond Farm Pottery | 3.6 miles | |
| Walters Ranch | 7.0 miles | 1977 | |
 | Hicks House | 7.9 miles | 1987 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100009749 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.