A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1921.
From the record
“Pond Farm was an American artists' colony that began in the 1940s and, in one form or another, continued until 1985. It is located near the Russian River resort town of Guerneville, California, about 75 mi (120 km) north of San Francisco.”
Wikipedia article Pond Farm, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 73 National Register listings published here for Sonoma County · category: District · a National Historic Landmark.
National Register reference number. 14000307 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1921 to 1998
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19211998
Fires near this property
287 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 287 fires within 5 miles of Pond Farm Pottery
between 1992 and 2019, burning about 230 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 25 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
132
Equipment and vehicle use
45
Debris and open burning
30
Arson/incendiarism
25
Recreation and ceremony
21
Misuse of fire by a minor
15
Power generation/transmission/distribution
10
Smoking
6
Natural
3
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
22 workings within 5 miles of Pond Farm Pottery: 14 unknowns, 6 occurrences, 1 producer, 1 past producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Mercury, Magnesite, Stone, Chromium. 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
Guerneville, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 7 flood, 1 heavy rain, 1 hail, 1 flash flood.
The reports record 1 death. 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.
A 911 caller reported to Sonoma County dispatch that they had seen a car go into floodwaters near Mays Canyon Road and Highway 116. Rescue crews arrived and found the vehicle, and the driver was found dead.
Heavy rain caused flooding from Fife Creek at Sycamore Court Mobile Home Park. Three inches of water flooded a trailer in less than 20 minutes. Report Courtesy KGO television/ABC 7 San Francisco.
The Russian River at Guerneville hit flood stage (32ft) at approximately 1600 hrs on February 26th, 2019. The gauge crested at 45.38 feet at 22:30 pm February 27th, 2019. Local law enforcement indicated the town of Guerneville became an island and was only accessible by boat or helicopter. The media reported approximately 4,000 structures were impacted by flood waters. The gauge did not fall below flood stage until after 1:30 pm on March 1st.
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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