Sonoma Valley Woman's Club

Built in 1901. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

One of 73 National Register listings published here for Sonoma County · listed in 2015 · category: Building · built in 1901, by Brainerd Jones.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 574 1st St., E., Sonoma, 95476
When was it listed? January 2015
Category. building
Census division. Sonoma
When was it built? 1901
Architect. Brainerd Jones
National Register reference number. 14001115 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1902 to 1983

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Sonoma Valley Woman's Club, surveyed 1983

Topographic sheet covering Sonoma Valley Woman's Club, surveyed 1902

Fires near this property

308 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 308 fires within 5 miles of Sonoma Valley Woman's Club between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,490 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 21 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
Equipment and vehicle use	119
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	113
Debris and open burning	22
Arson/incendiarism	21
Misuse of fire by a minor	12
Power generation/transmission/distribution	11
Smoking	5
Natural	3
Recreation and ceremony	1
Other causes	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 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	not named
9 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	not named
9 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
9 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	CAVEDALE
8 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	1.4 acres	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	ARNOLD
8 September 1992	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	SHERMAN
7 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	BARCELONA
6 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	not named

Every fire recorded in Sonoma County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 28 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Sonoma Valley Woman's Club: 16 past producers, 8 producers, 2 unknowns, 1 prospect. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Diatomite, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Stage Gulch Quarry , Inc.	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Location	Geothermal	Occurrence
Felder	Diatomite	Producer	Sedimentary
Felder	Diatomite	Past Producer
Mt Pisgah Vineyard	Diatomite	Unknown
Cannon Quarry	Stone	Producer
Cannon Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Felder	Stone	Producer
Quarry	Stone	Producer
Quarry	Stone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Sonoma County

Storms near this property

9 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sonoma, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 5 flood, 2 heavy rain, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. The reports record 3 injuries. 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
February 1998	Flash Flood	Sonoma	1 hurt, $200,000	no account filed
December 1996	Tornado (F0)	Sonoma	1 hurt, $500	no account filed
January 1998	Heavy Rain	Sonoma	1 hurt	no account filed
December 2008	Heavy Rain	Sonoma	$25,000	Heavy rain caused a fatality of a 32 year-old man when his vehicle collided with another vehicle. Highways 116 and 121 were closed for about three hours after the collision.
February 2024	Flood	Sonoma	-	California Route 12 was closed until 8 AM due to flooding from Fremont Drive to Watmaugh Road.
February 2019	Flood	Sonoma	-	CHP reports standing water in lane at Hwy 116 and Arnold Rd.
February 2019	Flood	Sonoma	-	Flooding on CA-12 from Watmaugh Rd to CA-121 at Millerick Rd. All roads remain closed in both directions.
February 2019	Flood	Sonoma	-	Roadway flooding in southbound lane of Arnold Dr near SR 116.
February 2019	Flood	Sonoma	-	CHP reports a severe traffic alert and flooding on CA-12 from Watmaugh Rd to CA-121 at Millerick Rd, all lanes closed in both directions.

Every storm recorded in Sonoma County

Maps showing this location

10 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.

1902 USGS Napa quadrangle1:125000 - 6 printings
1942 USGS Sonoma quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1951 USGS Sonoma quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1951 USGS Sonoma quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1958 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1962 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Napa quadrangle1:100000

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Sonoma Plaza	0.2 miles	1975
Sonoma Grammar School	0.2 miles	1980
Sonoma Plaza (Boundary Increase)	0.3 miles	1992
Sonoma Depot	0.4 miles	1975
Sonoma Plaza (Boundary Increase)	0.4 miles	1992
Orange Lawn	0.5 miles	2008

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 14001115 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sonoma County	All 73 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.