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One of 98 National Register listings published here for San Bernardino County · listed in 2025 · category: Site.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Chemehuevi Cemetery
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1953.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 9 objectss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. Adobe Road, just northeast of the intersection with Sullivan Road., Twentynine Palms, 92277
- When was it listed? 2025-01-13
- Category. site
- Census division. Twentynine Palms-Yucca Valley
- National Register reference number. 100011256 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1953 to 1982The ground this property stands on, surveyed 29 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
13 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Chemehuevi Cemetery between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Desert District | QUAIL |
| 8 August 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Joshua Tree National Monument | BOWE |
| 24 August 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Joshua Tree National Monument | QUEEN2 |
| 2 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | San Bernardino Unit | not named |
| 6 June 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Joshua Tree National Monument | 29 PALMS 1 |
| 23 May 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | San Bernardino Unit | ALLEY |
| 20 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 26 March 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.1 acres | Joshua Tree National Monument | INN |
Mines and quarries near this property
7 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Chemehuevi Cemetery: 4 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Gold, Copper, Lead, Vanadium, Zinc, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold Park District | Gold, Copper, Lead, Vanadium, Zinc | Occurrence | VANADATE | |
| Victor #1 Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Baseline Minerals | Gold, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Location | Silver | Unknown | ||
| Contact | Gold | Past Producer | Gold | |
| Contact | Gold | Past Producer | ||
| Sullivan No. 1 | Gold | Past Producer | Gold |
Maps showing this location
10 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.
- 1953 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Twentynine Palms quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Twentynine Palms quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
- 1956 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Twentynine Palms quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Big Bear Lake quadrangle1:100000
Listed places nearby
1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Wall Street Mill | 7.9 miles | 1975 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100011256 in Record Group 79. |
| San Bernardino County | All 98 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.