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One of 42 National Register listings published here for Mendocino County · listed in 2014 · category: Building · built in 1859.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
Seabiscuit's Stud Barn
Built in 1859. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1922.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 16200 N. US 101, Willits, 95490
- When was it listed? January 2014
- Category. building
- Census division. Willits
- When was it built? 1859
- National Register reference number. 13001108 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1922 to 1991The ground this property stands on, surveyed 69 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
199 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 199 fires within 5 miles of Seabiscuit's Stud Barn between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,119 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 7 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 | 90 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 44 |
| Debris and open burning | 29 |
| Natural | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 7 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 6 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Mendocino Unit | GOLDEN 2 |
| 5 September 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Mendocino Unit | # 277 |
| 5 September 1995 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Mendocino Unit | 101 |
| 3 September 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Mendocino Unit | LIGHTNING 8 |
| 29 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.3 acres | Mendocino Unit | BLACKHAWK |
| 27 September 2009 | Smoking | under an acre | Mendocino Unit | GRADE |
| 24 September 2009 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Mendocino Unit | FREY |
| 23 September 2009 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Mendocino Unit | TOMKI |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Seabiscuit's Stud Barn: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harris Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this property
6 since 2022Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Willits, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2022 and 2025: 5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2025 | Flood | Willits | - | Central Valley Road reported as flooded in Willits. |
| December 2022 | Flood | Willits | - | East Barbara Lane Bridge at Railroad Avenue was closed due to flooding. |
| September 2022 | Heavy Rain | Willits | - | CoCoRaHS report of 2.58 inches of rain in 45 minutes. 1 to 2 inches of water was observed on the Willits Bypass which stopped traffic. Water quickly subsided after the thunderstorm. |
| December 2022 | Flood | Willits | - | Walnut Street between Locust Street and Poplar Avenue was closed due to flooding. |
| December 2022 | Flood | Willits | - | The corner of East Commercial Street and Lenmore Avenue was closed due to flooding. |
| December 2022 | Flood | Willits | - | Eastbound E Valley Road was closed in Willits due to flooding. |
Maps showing this location
8 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.
- 1922 USGS Willits quadrangle1:62500
- 1942 USGS Willits quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Willits quadrangle1:62500
- 1957 USGS Ukiah quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Ukiah quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Willits quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
- 1981 USGS Ukiah quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings
- 1991 USGS Laughlin Range quadrangle1:24000
Listed places nearby
4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Willits Depot | 6.8 miles | 1999 |
 | Willits Carnegie Library | 6.8 miles | 1993 |
| Dr. Raymond Babcock House | 6.8 miles | 2004 | |
| Larsen Family House | 6.9 miles | 1995 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 13001108 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Mendocino County | All 42 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.