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One of 98 National Register listings published here for San Bernardino County · listed in 2025 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Alf's Blacksmith Shop
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1953.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 structuress, 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. 33652 - 33678 1st Street, Daggett, 92327
- When was it listed? April 2025
- Category. building
- Census division. Barstow
- National Register reference number. 100011630 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1953 to 1977The ground this property stands on, surveyed 24 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
14 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Alf's Blacksmith Shop between 1993 and 2020, burning about 324 acres in total. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 September 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | California Desert District | SOAPMINE |
| 2 September 1995 | Natural | 3.0 acres | California Desert District | ROCK |
| 14 August 2007 | Natural | under an acre | California Desert District | CAMP 2 |
| 19 July 2005 | Natural | 300 acres | California Desert District | SEGS |
| 13 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Desert District | SILVER |
| 30 June 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | California Desert District | CALICO |
| 29 June 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | California Desert District | DAGGETT |
| 26 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | San Bernardino Unit | I 15 S/ GHOST TOWN RD |
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 Alf's Blacksmith Shop: 17 past producers, 11 prospects, 6 occurrences, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Bentonite, Barium-Barite, Boron-Borates. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Calico | Boron-Borates, Strontium | Past Producer | 1882, 1888, 1924 | |
| Claw Hammer | Copper, Gold | Occurrence | Underground | |
| Daggett/Yermo Site | Limestone, General | Occurrence | ||
| Lead Mountain | Barium-Barite, Lead, Silver, Gold, Zinc | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Lead Mountain | Barium-Barite, Lead, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Brubaker Beige Rock Quarry | Volcanic Materials, Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Calico Rock Milling's Beige Rock Qu | Volcanic Materials | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed | Gold, Copper | Past Producer | Gold | |
| Unnamed Adit | Clay | Prospect | ||
| Unnamed Prospect | Gold, Copper | Prospect |
Storms near this property
4 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Daggett, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 3 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2024 | Lightning | Daggett | $25,000 | Lightning set fire to a transformer. |
| August 2025 | Flash Flood | Daggett | $2,000 | National Trails Highway at Nebo Street was blocked by significant water and debris flow. |
| August 2023 | Flash Flood | Daggett | $1,000 | Fast-moving water covered the intersection of I-15 and Fort Irwin Rd. |
| July 2008 | Flash Flood | Daggett | - | Water, mud and debris were crossing Yermo Road. |
Maps showing this location
9 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
- 1956 USGS Daggett quadrangle1:62500 - 4 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
- 1971 USGS Daggett quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1977 USGS Newberry Springs quadrangle1:100000
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100011630 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.
- 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.