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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
United States Post Office-Main Street Branch
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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. 515 Main Street, Placerville, 95667
- When was it listed? January 2025
- Category. building
- Also known as. US Post Office in California 1900-1941 TR
- Census division. Placerville
- National Register reference number. 100011215 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
938 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 938 fires within 5 miles of United States Post Office-Main Street Branch between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,036 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 53 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 | 332 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 226 |
| Debris and open burning | 211 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 53 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 48 |
| Smoking | 33 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 14 |
| Natural | 9 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 9 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| 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 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Amador-El Dorado Unit | SERVICE |
| 9 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Amador-El Dorado Unit | BOEGER WINERY PLACERVILLE |
| 9 September 2015 | Smoking | under an acre | Amador-El Dorado Unit | BEALS RD GOLD_HILL |
| 9 September 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Amador-El Dorado Unit | LINDBERG |
| 9 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Amador-El Dorado Unit | HY 50 EB / FORNI OFF RAM |
| 9 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Central California District | UNNAMED FIRE 1707 |
| 9 September 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Central California District | UNNAMED FIRE 1971 |
| 9 September 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Amador-El Dorado Unit | GATLIN |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 642 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 642 workings within 5 miles of United States Post Office-Main Street Branch: 331 occurrences, 178 unknowns, 120 past producers, 13 producers. 13 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Slate, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cold Springs Sand and Gravel Co. | Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown | ||
| Diamond Springs Li | Calcium | Unknown | ||
| Grand Victory | Gold, Antimony | Past Producer | Surface/Underground | |
| Old Gravel Mine | Germanium | Unknown | ||
| Oregon | Gold, Arsenic, Lead | Occurrence | ||
| Pacific Quartz | Gold, Arsenic, Silver | Unknown | ||
| Placerite Quarry and Mill | Stone | Producer | ||
| Placerville District | Gold, Platinum | Past Producer | 1848 | |
| Seven Bells | Copper, Gold | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Unknown | Gemstone | Occurrence |
Storms near this property
5 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Placerville, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2014 and 2023: 3 heavy rain, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2023 | Flood | Placerville | - | The California Highway Patrol reported mud, dirt and rock along the southbound lane of State Highway 49 near the SR 193 junction. |
| December 2019 | Heavy Rain | Placerville | - | A trained spotter reported widespread street flooding due to heavy rain. Spotter noted 0.61 inches of rain had fallen. |
| February 2017 | Heavy Rain | Placerville | - | There were 1.80 of rain measured in Placerville, 24 hour total. |
| October 2016 | Heavy Rain | Placerville | - | There were 4.00 inches of rainfall measured, 72 hour total. |
| December 2014 | Flood | Placerville | - | Flooding in southbound Highway 49 just north of 193 in Placerville caused traffic to swerve into northbound lanes. |
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 Placerville quadrangle1:125000
- 1892 USGS Placerville quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Placerville quadrangle1:125000 - 9 printings
- 1947 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Placerville quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
- 1949 USGS Placerville quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
- 1950 USGS Placerville quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
- 1976 USGS Placerville quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
Listed places nearby
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Fountain-Tallman Soda Works | under 500 feet | 1984 |
 | Confidence Hall | under 500 feet | 1982 |
 | John Pearson Soda Works | 0.1 miles | 1985 |
 | Combellack-Blair House | 0.2 miles | 1985 |
 | Episcopal Church of Our Saviour | 0.2 miles | 1977 |
 | Hattie (Gold Bug), Priest and Silver Pine Mines and Stampmill | 1.0 miles | 1985 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100011215 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.