Laura Russ Westphal House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1891.

From the record

One of 35 National Register listings published here for Placer County · listed in 2025 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Listed as. Westphal, Laura Russ, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 2540 West Lake Boulevard, Homewood, 96145
When was it listed? July 2025
Category. building
Census division. Lake Tahoe
National Register reference number. 100012018 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

192 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 192 fires within 5 miles of Laura Russ Westphal House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 100 acres in total. 30 started naturally. 3 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
Recreation and ceremony	53
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50
Natural	30
Debris and open burning	16
Smoking	14
Misuse of fire by a minor	12
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Other causes	4
Arson/incendiarism	3

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 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit	64 ACRES
9 September 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit	ANN
9 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	Tahoe National Forest	PEN
8 September 2001	Other causes	under an acre	Tahoe National Forest	MERTENS
6 September 2017	Natural	under an acre	Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit	MCKINNEY
5 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit	RESORT
5 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit	THUNDER
4 September 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit	BLACKWOOD

Every fire recorded in Placer County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Laura Russ Westphal House: 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Arsenic. 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
	Tahoe Treasure Prospect	Gold, Copper, Arsenic	Past Producer	Chalcopyrite, Gold, Pyrite
	Tahoe Treasure Prospect	Gold	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Placer County

Storms near this property

14 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Homewood, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 12 heavy rain, 2 hail. 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	Heavy Rain	Homewood	-	Mesonet station (HMDC1-Homewood) located 1.0 mi W of Homewood Mountain Ski resort, CA, reported a 24 hour rainfall total of 0.52 inches.
October 2024	Heavy Rain	Homewood	-	A mesonet station (HMDC1-Homewood) located 1.0 mi W of Homewood Mountain Ski Base, CA reported 24 hour total rainfall amount of 0.83 inches.
September 2022	Heavy Rain	Homewood	-	Trained spotter (1.0 mi NNW of Homewood Mountain Ski Resort) and mesonet station HMDC1 Homewood (1.0 mi W of Homewood Mountain Ski Resort) reported heavy rainfall amounts of 0.63 and 0.64 inches respectively.
May 2019	Heavy Rain	Homewood	-	Trained weather spotter 1 mile north-northwest of Homewood reported 1.86 inches of rainfall in a 24 hour period from 25 May 0745PST to 26 May 0745PST. Much of this rain was due to showers passing overhead the afternoon and evening of the 25th. Spotter elevation 6230 feet MSL.
December 2019	Heavy Rain	Homewood	-	RAWS HDMC1 in Homewood reported 1.71 inches of rainfall in a 48-hour period from 6 December 2019PST to 8 December 2019PST at an elevation of 7121 feet MSL.
May 2019	Heavy Rain	Homewood	-	Mesonet station HMDC1 in Homewood reported 0.96 inches of rainfall in a 24 hour period from 15 May 0619PST to 16 May 0619PST. Mesonet elevation 7121 feet MSL.
May 2019	Heavy Rain	Homewood	-	Trained Weather Spotter 1 mile northwest of Homewood reported 1.40 inches of rainfall in a 24 hour period from 15 May 0700PST to 16 May 0700PST (elevation 6350 feet MSL).
March 2018	Heavy Rain	Homewood	-	Public in Homewood measured 5.30 inches of storm total rainfall from 20 March 1133PST to 23 March 1133PST. 0.89 inches of that rainfall fell from 22 March 1133PST to 23 March 1133PST.
May 2018	Heavy Rain	Homewood	-	Trained weather spotter 1 mile north-northwest of Homewood reported 1.92 inches of rainfall in a 24-hour period from 24 May 0931PST to 25 May 0931PST.
October 2018	Heavy Rain	Homewood	-	A trained weather spotter 1-mile north-northwest of Homewood reported 1.05 inches of rainfall in a 24-hour period from 3 October 0930PST to 4 October 0930PST.
December 2005	Heavy Rain	Homewood	-	A total of 5.50 inches of rain fell in a 24-hour period 1 mile north of Homewood.
November 2002	Heavy Rain	Homewood	-	Spotter reported rainfall total of 3 inches.
July 2013	Hail	Homewood	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Homewood	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Placer County

Maps showing this location

11 surveys

United 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 Truckee quadrangle1:125000
1893 USGS Truckee quadrangle1:125000
1895 USGS Truckee quadrangle1:125000 - 9 printings
1932 USGS Truckee quadrangle1:96000
1940 USGS Truckee quadrangle1:125000 - 4 printings
1955 USGS Tahoe quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1955 USGS Tahoe City quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1958 USGS Chico quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1960 USGS Chico quadrangle1:250000
1977 USGS Truckee quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1992 USGS Tahoe City quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

4 within 8 miles

Other 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Chapel of the Transfiguration	2.0 miles	2011
Outlet Gates and Gatekeeper's Cabin	2.8 miles	1972
Lake Tahoe Dam	2.8 miles	1981
Watson Log Cabin	3.2 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100012018 in Record Group 79.
Placer County	All 35 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.