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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
Coloma Community Hall
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, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. 319 CA 49, Coloma, 95633
- When was it listed? August 2025
- Category. building
- Census division. North El Dorado
- National Register reference number. 100012016 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
525 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 525 fires within 5 miles of Coloma Community Hall between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,990 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 45 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 | 148 |
| Debris and open burning | 138 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 120 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 45 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 24 |
| Smoking | 16 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 11 |
| Natural | 11 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Other causes | 5 |
| 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 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | BOOT |
| 9 September 2015 | Smoking | under an acre | Amador-El Dorado Unit | BEALS RD GOLD_HILL |
| 9 September 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Amador-El Dorado Unit | MARSHALL |
| 9 September 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Central California District | UNNAMED FIRE 1971 |
| 9 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Central California District | COLOMA |
| 9 September 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Central California District | COLOMA 2 |
| 8 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | COLD |
| 7 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Central California District | UNNAMED FIRE 1618 |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 514 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 514 workings within 5 miles of Coloma Community Hall: 267 occurrences, 122 past producers, 117 unknowns, 7 producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Chromium, Slate, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| El Dorado | Copper, Gold, Silver, Zinc, Nickel | Past Producer | Replacement | |
| Contraband | Copper, Asbestos | Past Producer | Vein | |
| Contraband | Copper, Asbestos | Unknown | ||
| Gentle Annie | Gold, Lead | Past Producer | Galena, Gold, Pyrite | |
| Henningsen Gravel Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Kelsey | Gold, Lead | Past Producer | Galena, Gold, Pyrite | |
| Lotus Pit and Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Manhattan | Gold, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Mccurdy Mine | Iron, Chromium | Past Producer | ||
| O'Brien Mine | Iron, Chromium | Past Producer | 1917, 1918 |
Storms near this property
2 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coloma, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2015 and 2023: 1 hail, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2023 | Flood | Coloma | - | On January 3 in El Dorado County, a 33 year-old male drowned in the South Fork of the American River near Coloma, CA. It is unknown how he ended up in the river. |
| November 2015 | Hail | Coloma | - | Quarter size hail covered the ground. |
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 Garden Valley quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
- 1949 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
- 1950 USGS Garden Valley quadrangle1:24000
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Coloma | 3.6 miles | 1966 |
 | Wakamatsu Tea and Silk Colony Farm | 4.3 miles | 2009 |
 | Hattie (Gold Bug), Priest and Silver Pine Mines and Stampmill | 5.0 miles | 1985 |
| Lombardo Ranch | 5.6 miles | 1977 | |
 | Episcopal Church of Our Saviour | 5.9 miles | 1977 |
 | Confidence Hall | 6.0 miles | 1982 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100012016 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.