Photograph of Western Railway Museum — Photograph by LPS.1, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Sacramento Northern Railway Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1907.

From the record

“The Western Railway Museum, in Solano County, California, United States is located on Highway 12 between Rio Vista and Suisun. The museum is built along the former mainline of the Sacramento Northern Railway.”
Wikipedia article Western Railway Museum, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 38 National Register listings published here for Solano County · listed in 2012 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. 5848 CA 12, Suisun City, 94585
When was it listed? July 2012
Category. district
Census division. Rio Vista
National Register reference number. 12000402 - 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 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Sacramento Northern Railway Historic District in 2007, burning about 6 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
16 June 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.7 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named

Every fire recorded in Solano County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Sacramento Northern Railway Historic District: 3 producers, 2 unknowns. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Denverton Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Explosive Technology Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Peterson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Potrero Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Solano County

Maps showing this location

11 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1907 USGS Antioch quadrangle1:62500
1908 USGS Antioch quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1918 USGS Birds Landing quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1947 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000
1951 USGS Antioch quadrangle1:50000
1953 USGS Birds Landing quadrangle1:24000 - 6 printings
1953 USGS Pittsburg quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1993 USGS Lodi quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

1 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Bird and Dinkelspiel Store	4.2 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 12000402 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Solano County	All 38 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.