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Memorial Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1896.

From the record

One of 49 National Register listings published here for Contra Costa County · listed in 2014 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Pomona St. at Alexander Ave., Crockett, 94525
  • When was it listed? February 2014
  • Category. building
  • Census division. West Contra Costa
  • National Register reference number. 14000013 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1896 to 1983

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Memorial Hall, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet covering Memorial Hall, surveyed 1896

Fires near this property

539 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 539 fires within 5 miles of Memorial Hall between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,694 acres in total. None started naturally. 64 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/undetermined356
Arson/incendiarism64
Equipment and vehicle use46
Smoking28
Misuse of fire by a minor22
Debris and open burning9
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Fireworks1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
9 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSanta Clara UnitFOUR
8 September 2005Smoking1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSanta Clara Unitnot named
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSanta Clara Unitnot named
7 September 1995Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresSanta Clara UnitPG&E ALHAMBRA
6 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.3 acresSanta Clara Unitnot named
6 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSanta Clara Unitnot named

Every fire recorded in Contra Costa County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Memorial Hall: 7 unknowns, 4 occurrences, 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Mercury, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
McnearsStone, DimensionOccurrence
Unnamed LocationClayOccurrence
Main Mine & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Port Costa Shale QuarrysStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Borges ProspectMercuryOccurrenceCinnabar
Borges ProspectMercuryUnknown
Brownlie PropertyMercuryPast ProducerCinnabar
Brownlie ProspectMercuryUnknown
FranklinStoneUnknown
HastingsMercuryUnknown

Every working recorded in Contra Costa County

Maps showing this location

16 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.

Listed places nearby

6 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Port Costa School1.4 miles1988
Tucker House4.7 miles1999
Martinez Downtown Post Office4.8 miles2012
Borland House4.8 miles2015
Contra Costa County Courthouse Block4.8 miles1989
Contra Costa County Hall of Records4.9 miles1991

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 14000013 in Record Group 79.
Contra Costa CountyAll 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.