Built in 1942. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1910.
From the record
“The Republic Café was an Asian restaurant and banquet hall in Salinas, California's Chinatown, in the United States. It was one of Salinas's oldest surviving commercial buildings that was in operation from 1942 to 1988.”
Wikipedia article Republic Cafe, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 64 National Register listings published here for Monterey County · listed in 2011 · category: Building · built in 1942.
National Register reference number.11000430- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Then and now
1910 to 1948
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
38 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19101948
Fires near this property
129 since 1993
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 129 fires within 5 miles of Republic Cafe
between 1993 and 2020, burning about 405 acres in total. None started naturally. 11 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
86
Equipment and vehicle use
13
Arson/incendiarism
11
Misuse of fire by a minor
9
Debris and open burning
6
Smoking
3
Railroad operations and maintenance
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
8 September 2004
Misuse of fire by a minor
under an acre
San Benito-Monterey Unit
CABEU004147
7 September 2018
Debris and open burning
1.0 acres
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
5 September 2020
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1.0 acres
San Benito-Monterey Unit
not named
4 September 2008
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
6.0 acres
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
30 September 2018
Debris and open burning
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
25 September 2019
Misuse of fire by a minor
under an acre
San Benito-Monterey Unit
not named
21 September 2018
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
13 workings within 5 miles of Republic Cafe: 5 producers, 4 past producers, 2 prospects, 2 occurrences.
5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Salinas, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 6 flood, 2 hail, 2 debris flow, 1 flash flood.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
Mudslide from the River Fire burn scar. Crews worked to rescue residents and their animals (at least 50 large animals were in need of rescue). People were blocked into their homes with mild to moderate damage reported at at least 20 homes (exact amount unknown) with one homeowner injured and taken to the hospital https://www.ksbw.com/article/animals-being-rescued-people-trapped-in-their-homes-from-mudslide-near-river-fire-burn-scar/35337056 - https://abc7news.com/weather/homes-damaged-several-rescued-after-mudslide-in-monterey-co/10073282/ .
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.
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.
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.
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