Built in 1917. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. 21 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.
From the record
“Hakone Gardens is an 18-acre (7.3 ha) traditional Japanese garden in Saratoga, California, United States. A recipient of the Save America's Treasures Award by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, it is recognized as one of the oldest Japanese-style residential gardens in the Western Hemisphere.”
Wikipedia article Hakone Gardens, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 117 National Register listings published here for Santa Clara County · listed in 2013 · category: District · built in 1917.
National Register reference number. 13000181 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
234 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 234 fires within 5 miles of Hakone Historic District
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 222 acres in total. None started naturally. 30 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
114
Equipment and vehicle use
36
Arson/incendiarism
30
Power generation/transmission/distribution
15
Smoking
15
Misuse of fire by a minor
14
Debris and open burning
7
Recreation and ceremony
2
Other causes
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 2019
Power generation/transmission/distribution
under an acre
Santa Clara Unit
not named
9 September 2014
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1.0 acres
San Mateo-Santa Cruz Unit
LOST
4 September 2018
Misuse of fire by a minor
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
29 September 2019
Equipment and vehicle use
under an acre
Santa Clara Unit
not named
28 September 2017
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
28 September 2007
Power generation/transmission/distribution
under an acre
Santa Clara Unit
SANBORN
27 September 2017
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
20 workings within 5 miles of Hakone Historic District: 9 past producers, 5 producers, 3 unknowns, 2 occurrences.
5 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Calcium. 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
Saratoga, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2002 and 2019: 4 debris flow, 2 heavy rain, 2 flood.
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.
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.
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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