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One of 49 National Register listings published here for Contra Costa County · listed in 2013 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Robert Stanley Sr. Dollar House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. 21 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Dollar, Robert Stanley Sr., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 1015 Stanley Dollar Dr., Walnut Creek, 94595
- When was it listed? July 2013
- Category. building
- Census division. Central Contra Costa
- National Register reference number. 13000472 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1897 to 1995The ground this property stands on, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Fires near this property
243 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 243 fires within 5 miles of Robert Stanley Sr. Dollar House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 366 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 20 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 | 97 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 52 |
| Smoking | 37 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 20 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 18 |
| Debris and open burning | 11 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 6 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 8 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Santa Clara Unit | SAINT MARYS RD MORAGA |
| 8 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 5 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 9.0 acres | Santa Clara Unit | BOLLINGER |
| 5 September 2008 | Smoking | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 3 September 2011 | Smoking | under an acre | Santa Clara Unit | not named |
| 3 September 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 29 September 2011 | Smoking | under an acre | Santa Clara Unit | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 13 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Robert Stanley Sr. Dollar House: 7 occurrences, 4 past producers, 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Limestone, Dimension, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clark & Sons | Clay | Prospect | ||
| Mclaughlin Lithograph-Stone Quarry | Limestone, General | Occurrence | Sedimentary | |
| Mclaughlinlithograph-Stonequarry | Limestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| N. M. Ball Sons | Stone | Occurrence | ||
| N. M. Ball Sons | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Ball | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| Ball | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Gallagher & Burke | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Gallagher and Burke | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| Immel | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence |
Storms near this property
9 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Walnut Creek, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 6 flood, 2 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2010 | Heavy Rain | Walnut Creek | $10,000 | A rain-slicked road led to the crash of a car at the intersection of Mount Diablo Boulevard and Iron Horse Regional Trail in Walnut Creek. The vehicle crashed through a fence and landed upside down in the rain-swollen San Ramon Creek bypass. The driver and one other individual perished, while one occupant was rescued three miles downstream. A Contra Costa County official stated that at the time of the crash, the water would have been 2.34 feet deep and flowing at 6.4 feet per second. |
| February 2025 | Flood | Walnut Creek | - | Around 8 inches of water were reported on the ramp that connects eastbound State Route 24 to southbound Interstate 680. |
| November 2019 | Flood | Walnut Creek | - | Media reported flooded roads at the intersection of Broadway and Cypress St in Walnut Creek. |
| January 2018 | Flood | Walnut Creek | - | Roadway flooding reported at I 680S and Ygnacio Valley Road on ramp. Six inches of standing water. |
| January 2018 | Flood | Walnut Creek | - | I 680 southbound lanes flooded. |
| November 2018 | Flood | Walnut Creek | - | Roadway flooding reported at I680 N and Olympic Blvd on ramp, 8-10 inches of water in number 2 lane. |
| February 1998 | Flash Flood | Walnut Creek | - | people evacuated Walnut Creek due to flash Flood. |
| February 1998 | Flash Flood | Walnut Creek | - | Streets and businesses flash flood in Walnut Creek. |
| December 2002 | Flood | Walnut Creek | - | no account filed |
Maps showing this location
21 surveysUnited 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.
- 1897 USGS Concord quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
- 1915 USGS Concord quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
- 1942 USGS Concord quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Concord quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Las Trampas Ridge quadrangle1:24000
- 1947 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Las Trampas Ridge quadrangle1:24000
- 1955 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
- 1957 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Concord quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Las Trampas Ridge quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
- 1960 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
- 1985 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1993 USGS Las Trampas Ridge quadrangle1:24000
- 1995 USGS Las Trampas Ridge quadrangle1:24000
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Tao House | 3.4 miles | 1971 |
 | Eugene O'Neill National Historic Site | 3.4 miles | 1978 |
 | Old Borges Ranch | 3.8 miles | 1981 |
 | Moraga Adobe | 4.9 miles | 1972 |
 | Danville Southern Pacific Railroad Depot | 4.9 miles | 1994 |
 | Shadelands Ranch House | 5.0 miles | 1985 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 13000472 in Record Group 79. |
| Contra Costa County | All 49 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.