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One of 22 National Register listings published here for Amador County · listed in 2014 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
C.W. Swain House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1889.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Swain, C.W., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 311 Church & 330 Buena Vista Sts., Ione, 95640
- When was it listed? October 2014
- Category. building
- Census division. Ione
- National Register reference number. 14000824 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1889 to 1993The ground this property stands on, surveyed 104 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
248 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 248 fires within 5 miles of C.W. Swain House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,952 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 11 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 | 98 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 79 |
| Debris and open burning | 32 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 11 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Other causes | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 1999 | Natural | 10 acres | Amador-El Dorado Unit | 0WENS |
| 9 September 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Amador-El Dorado Unit | TWIN |
| 7 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Amador-El Dorado Unit | SUTTER |
| 7 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.0 acres | Amador-El Dorado Unit | 124 |
| 7 September 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Central California District | BUENA |
| 6 September 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Amador-El Dorado Unit | POND |
| 5 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Amador-El Dorado Unit | JACKSON |
| 5 September 2009 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Amador-El Dorado Unit | HY |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 174 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 174 workings within 5 miles of C.W. Swain House: 57 occurrences, 37 producers, 29 unknowns, 26 past producers. 37 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Gold, Copper, Chromium. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amador Lime Rock | Limestone, General | Producer | ||
| Fancher | Gold, Clay | Producer | ||
| Hayward | Copper, Silver, Gold, Zinc | Past Producer | Chalcopyrite, Pyrite, Sphalerite | |
| Ione | Copper, Gold, Silver, Zinc, Antimony | Past Producer | Stibnite | |
| Ione Clays | Iron, Silica, Aluminum, Water, Free | Past Producer | Surface | |
| Ione Pit and Mill | Zirconium, Titanium, Kaolin | Producer | 1954 | |
| Mooney | Gemstone, Quartz | Occurrence | ||
| Mooney | Gemstone | Prospect | ||
| Newton | Copper, Silver, Gold, Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | 1863 | |
| Newton | Copper, Gold, Silver | Past Producer | Underground |
Storms near this property
1 since 2023Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ione, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2023: 1 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2023 | Funnel Cloud | Ione | - | The public reported a funnel cloud near Ione. |
Maps showing this location
14 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.
- 1889 USGS Jackson quadrangle1:125000
- 1892 USGS Jackson quadrangle1:125000
- 1897 USGS Jackson quadrangle1:125000
- 1902 USGS Jackson quadrangle1:125000 - 7 printings
- 1941 USGS Sutter Creek quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Sutter Creek quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1947 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Sutter Creek quadrangle1:62500
- 1962 USGS Ione quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Sutter Creek quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1993 USGS San Andreas quadrangle1:100000
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Ione City Centenary Church | under 500 feet | 1977 |
 | George and Eliza Withington House | 0.3 miles | 2015 |
 | Preston Castle | 0.8 miles | 1975 |
| Preston School of Industry | 1.0 miles | 2024 | |
| Five Mile Drive-Sutter Creek Bridge | 1.4 miles | 1986 | |
 | Scully Ranch | 1.5 miles | 1978 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 14000824 in Record Group 79. |
| Amador County | All 22 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.