Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1907.
From the record
“The Sacramento Historic City Cemetery, located at 1000 Broadway, at 10th Street, is the oldest existing cemetery in Sacramento, California. It was designed to resemble a Victorian garden and sections that are not located in level areas are surrounded by brick or concrete retaining walls to create level terraces.”
Wikipedia article Sacramento Historic City Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 106 National Register listings published here for Sacramento County · listed in 2014 · category: Site.
National Register reference number. 14000889 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
185 since 1999
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 185 fires within 5 miles of Sacramento City Cemetery
between 1999 and 2019, burning about 630 acres in total. None started naturally. 12 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
145
Arson/incendiarism
12
Equipment and vehicle use
7
Smoking
6
Misuse of fire by a minor
6
Railroad operations and maintenance
5
Debris and open burning
4
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
Debris and open burning
under an acre
Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit
not named
9 September 2008
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
8 September 2011
Debris and open burning
1.0 acres
Amador-El Dorado Unit
not named
7 September 2010
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
7 September 2009
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
30 September 2009
Smoking
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
3 September 2010
Misuse of fire by a minor
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
25 September 2010
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
24 workings within 5 miles of Sacramento City Cemetery: 13 past producers, 4 producers, 3 unknowns, 2 prospects.
4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Gold. 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
Sacramento, the town this property stands in, in 40 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 24 flood, 4 heavy rain, 4 hail, 3 funnel cloud.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
California Highway Patrol reported multiple onramps and offramps flooded along the Interstate 80 and Highway 50 junction, and on Highway 50 east of Sacramento.
The California Highway Patrol reported 24 inches of standing water in the Number 1 lane on the transition ramp from Southbound Interstate 5 to Eastbound US Highway 50.
Most of the three lanes were blocked with water between US 50 eastbound and Highway 99 southbound in Sacramento. Reported by the California Highway Patrol.
California Highway Patrol reported significant flooding in the #1 lane of the ramp off I-5 due to a clogged storm drain. Some rainfall totals over 24 hours were 1.26 inches at Mather, 1.46 inches at Fair Oaks.
Heavy rain and flooding was reported in Sacramento. Law enforcement reported numerous flooded off ramps and roads that lead to roadway closures and car accidents. Reported storm totals reached 2.6 to around 4 inches of rain.
Downtown Sacramento recorded 3.04 inches of rain on the 13th, which was the second highest 24 hour rain amount to occur in the month of October and the 11th highest of all time. An additional 0.20 inches fell on the 14th. Other towns in the vicinity received two to three inches for the storm total.||Numerous storm drains clogged, causing local street flooding. The most notable was along the section of Interstate 5 going through downtown Sacramento, which caused travel problems for many hours. ||Several buildings were damaged from the heavy rain including a Filco store in Citrus Heights that suffered a roof collapse from water buildup. Minor flooding was also reported to have damaged nearby homes.||Peak wind gusts of 48 mph were recorded at Sacramento Executive Airport on the 13th. Hundreds of trees and large branches fell, damaging numerous cars and causing power outages for approximately 124,000 customers in the Sacramento area.
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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