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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
Tassajara One Room School
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1896.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 1650 Finley Rd., Danville, 94588
- When was it listed? April 2014
- Category. building
- Census division. Tassajara
- National Register reference number. 14000135 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1896 to 1996The ground this property stands on, surveyed 100 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
136 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 136 fires within 5 miles of Tassajara One Room School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,046 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 10 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 | 61 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 50 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 10 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Firearms and explosives use | 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 2011 | Natural | 7.0 acres | Santa Clara Unit | 4-JUN |
| 6 September 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Santa Clara Unit | DEER MEADOW |
| 5 September 2007 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 9.0 acres | Santa Clara Unit | JOHNSTON RD MORGAN_TERRI |
| 4 September 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Santa Clara Unit | CURRY |
| 3 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Santa Clara Unit | not named |
| 29 September 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Santa Clara Unit | MORGAN |
| 29 September 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Santa Clara Unit | TASSAJARA |
| 28 September 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Santa Clara Unit | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
8 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Tassajara One Room School: 3 unknowns, 2 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Stone, Dimension, Gold, Silver. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hellyer Pit | Stone, Dimension | Unknown | ||
| Mount Zion | Copper, Gold, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Sycamore Canyon | Copper, Zinc, Mercury | Occurrence | Underground | |
| Sycamore Canyon | Copper, Mercury, Zinc | Unknown | ||
| Hillsdale Pit and Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Location | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Prospect | ||
| Unnamed Location | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Prospect | ||
| Western Tile and Supply Co. | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
Storms near this property
3 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Danville, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2018 and 2024: 1 hail, 1 debris flow, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2024 | Flood | Danville | - | Slow lane starting to collapse with a crack approximately 10 feet long at the offramp from southbound Interstate 680 to El Pintado Road. |
| January 2019 | Debris Flow | Danville | - | Mud flow along hillside at Bollinger Canyon Rd just west of Bear Tree Road crossing westbound lanes. |
| March 2018 | Hail | Danville | - | no account filed |
Maps showing this location
11 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.
- 1896 USGS Mt. Diablo quadrangle1:62500
- 1898 USGS Mt. Diablo quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
- 1943 USGS Mt. Diablo quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Tassajara quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
- 1956 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
- 1966 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:250000
- 1989 USGS Stockton quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
- 1991 USGS Tassajara quadrangle1:24000
- 1996 USGS Tassajara quadrangle1:24000
Listed places nearby
2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Forest Home Farms | 6.9 miles | 2002 |
 | Danville Southern Pacific Railroad Depot | 7.6 miles | 1994 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 14000135 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.