Leighton Encampment

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1896.

From the record

One of 32 National Register listings published here for Tuolumne County · listed in 2013 · category: Site.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 6 buildingss, 3 objectss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Roughly 12 mi. SW. of Pinecrest, Pinecrest
When was it listed? April 2013
Category. site
Census division. Twain Harte-Tuolumne City
National Register reference number. 13000142 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

44 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Leighton Encampment between 1993 and 2020, burning about 150 acres in total. 27 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
Natural	27
Recreation and ceremony	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4

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
3 September 2014	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Stanislaus National Forest	WOOD
29 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Stanislaus National Forest	PIUTE
20 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Stanislaus National Forest	PIUTE
2 September 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest	KINNEY
1 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.2 acres	Stanislaus National Forest	PINGREE
7 August 1997	Natural	under an acre	Central California District	BRUSH
6 August 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Stanislaus National Forest	WIRE
5 August 2012	Natural	under an acre	Central California District	CEDAR

Every fire recorded in Tuolumne County

Storms near this property

2 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pinecrest, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2001 and 2018: 1 heavy rain, 1 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
May 2018	Hail	Pinecrest	-	Hail covered the ground to a depth of just over 2 inches. Most of the hail was pea size, but the larger hailstones were as large as nickels and quarters. The hail for about 15 minutes.
January 2001	Heavy Rain	Pinecrest	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tuolumne County

Maps showing this location

10 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.

1896 USGS Dardanelles quadrangle1:125000 - 2 printings
1898 USGS Dardanelles quadrangle1:125000 - 8 printings
1948 USGS Walker Lake quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Pinecrest quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1957 USGS Walker Lake quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1962 USGS Walker Lake quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Walker Lake quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1985 USGS Bridgeport quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Cooper Peak quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
2001 USGS Cooper Peak quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 13000142 in Record Group 79.
Tuolumne County	All 32 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.
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.