Auburn City Hall and Fire House

Built in 1937 (Moderne architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1891.

From the record

“The Auburn City Hall and Fire House, at 1103 High St. in Auburn, California, is a Moderne-style fire station and city hall which was built in 1935. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.”
Wikipedia article Auburn City Hall and Fire House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 35 National Register listings published here for Placer County · listed in 2012 · category: Building · built in 1937, Moderne architecture.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 1103 High St., Auburn, 95603
When was it listed? December 2012
Category. building
Also known as. Auburn, CA MPS
Census division. Auburn
When was it built? 1937
Architectural style. Moderne architecture
National Register reference number. 11000935 - 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.

Fires near this property

1,175 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,175 fires within 5 miles of Auburn City Hall and Fire House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,838 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 71 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	508
Equipment and vehicle use	329
Debris and open burning	149
Arson/incendiarism	71
Smoking	36
Misuse of fire by a minor	32
Power generation/transmission/distribution	24
Natural	9
Railroad operations and maintenance	9
Recreation and ceremony	4
Other causes	2
Firearms and explosives use	1
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	GERRY
9 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	EDGEWOOD
9 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Nevada-Yuba-Placer Unit	SHAWNEE
9 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Nevada-Yuba-Placer Unit	AUBURN
9 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Nevada-Yuba-Placer Unit	AIRPORT
9 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Amador-El Dorado Unit	MISTY
9 September 1992	Arson/incendiarism	150 acres	Nevada-Yuba-Placer Unit	FORESTHILL
8 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Nevada-Yuba-Placer Unit	NEWCASTLE

Every fire recorded in Placer County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 253 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 253 workings within 5 miles of Auburn City Hall and Fire House: 88 past producers, 83 unknowns, 68 occurrences, 13 producers. 13 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Booth	Gold, Copper, Silver, Lead	Occurrence
Cool-Cave Valley Quarry	Limestone, General	Producer
Coulton Lime and Stone-Auburn Plant	Limestone, Dimension	Producer
Davenport Deposit	Silica	Occurrence
Eclipse Consolidated	Gold, Copper, Lead, Silver, Zinc	Unknown
Eclipse Consolidated	Gold, Copper, Silver, Lead, Zinc	Past Producer	Argentite, Galena, Gold, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Elder	Molybdenum, Copper	Occurrence	Molybdenite
Gold Blossom	Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Arsenic	Past Producer	Gold, Pyrite, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite
Golden Stag	Gold, Silver, Molybdenum	Past Producer	Gold, Molybdenite
Green Point	Iron	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Placer County

Storms near this property

7 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Auburn, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 4 flood, 2 heavy rain, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 2 deaths. 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
November 2024	Flood	Auburn	2 killed	Placer County Sheriff reported a group of three men went to fish in the North American River, north of Folsom Lake on November 23rd. Two of the men, both 20 years old, got into the water. One of them was swept away by the strong currents and the second man tried to help but was also pulled into the current. The recovery operation was extremely technical and in a portion of the river with rapids and strong current due to the storm. Both 20 year old men drowned and their bodies were recovered downstream on November 25th.
February 2025	Flood	Auburn	-	California Highway Patrol reported a partial road obstruction with dirt in the roadway on the Auburn side at State Route 99 and El Dorado Street from heavy rain.
January 2023	Flood	Auburn	-	Caltrans District 3 reported closure of Highway 49 at Lincoln Way to the American River Confluence due to a Rockslide.
January 2023	Flood	Auburn	-	Caltrans and CHP Auburn reported a rockslide on SR-49 east of Auburn. SR-49 is closed from the North Fork American River Bridge to Borland St and Lincoln Way.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Auburn	-	no account filed
January 2000	Heavy Rain	Auburn	-	no account filed
January 2000	Heavy Rain	Auburn	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Placer County

Maps showing this location

12 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 Sacramento quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:125000 - 5 printings
1893 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:125000
1944 USGS Auburn quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1947 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Auburn quadrangle1:24000 - 9 printings
1954 USGS Auburn quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1975 USGS Auburn quadrangle1:24000
1994 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

6 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
Auburn Masonic Temple	under 500 feet	2011
Placer County Bank	0.1 miles	2011
Auburn Public Library	0.1 miles	2011
Irene Burns House	0.2 miles	2013
Auburn Grammar School	0.2 miles	2012
Earl Crabbe Gymnasium	0.2 miles	2017

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 11000935 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.