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One of 21 National Register listings published here for El Dorado County · listed in 2025 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Jacob Zentgraf House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1891.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Listed as. Zentgraf, Jacob, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 2441 Deer Valley Road, Rescue, 95672
- When was it listed? February 2025
- Category. building
- Census division. South El Dorado
- National Register reference number. 100010882 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
1,103 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,103 fires within 5 miles of Jacob Zentgraf House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,205 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 91 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 | 404 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 358 |
| Debris and open burning | 107 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 91 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 67 |
| Smoking | 31 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 20 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 12 |
| Natural | 9 |
| Other causes | 3 |
| Fireworks | 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 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.5 acres | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | NEUMANN |
| 9 September 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Amador-El Dorado Unit | 50 |
| 9 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Amador-El Dorado Unit | GREEN |
| 9 September 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Amador-El Dorado Unit | RITE |
| 9 September 1993 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Amador-El Dorado Unit | CIMMARON |
| 8 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | BASS |
| 8 September 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Amador-El Dorado Unit | AMBUSH |
| 8 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Amador-El Dorado Unit | 50 |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 132 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 132 workings within 5 miles of Jacob Zentgraf House: 55 occurrences, 38 unknowns, 31 past producers, 5 prospects. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Chromium, Silver, Iron. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drumlummon Claim | Copper, Silver, Zinc | Prospect | ||
| Foothill Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Marble Valley Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Pilot Knob | Silver, Gold | Occurrence | ||
| Boneset | Gold, Copper, Lead | Past Producer | Chalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Pyrite | |
| Darrington Mine | Chromium, Iron | Past Producer | 1914 | |
| Joerger Mine | Chromium, Iron | Past Producer | 1918 | |
| Pyramid | Gold, Copper, Lead | Past Producer | Chalcopyrite, Galena, Gold | |
| Reliance | Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Reliance | Iron | Unknown |
Storms near this property
1 since 2020Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rescue, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2020: 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2020 | Flood | Rescue | - | California Highway Patrol reported roadway flooding between Green Valley Rd and Lotus Rd near Rescue. |
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 Sacramento quadrangle1:125000
- 1892 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:125000 - 5 printings
- 1893 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:125000
- 1941 USGS Folsom quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1944 USGS Folsom quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1947 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Clarksville quadrangle1:24000 - 7 printings
- 1956 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
- 1994 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100010882 in Record Group 79. |
| El Dorado County | All 21 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.