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One of 63 National Register listings published here for San Mateo County · listed in 2015 · category: Structure.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
POLARIS (research vessel)
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015. 19 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1899.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 597 Seaport Blvd., Redwood City, 94063
- When was it listed? March 2015
- Category. structure
- Census division. San Mateo
- National Register reference number. 15000100 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1899 to 1993The ground this property stands on, surveyed 94 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
191 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 191 fires within 5 miles of POLARIS (research vessel) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 68 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 18 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 | 112 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 21 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 18 |
| Smoking | 16 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 10 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | San Mateo-Santa Cruz Unit | not named |
| 6 September 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | San Mateo-Santa Cruz Unit | EDGEWOOD |
| 6 September 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.5 acres | San Mateo-Santa Cruz Unit | OYSTER POINT |
| 6 September 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | San Mateo-Santa Cruz Unit | PIPE |
| 5 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | San Mateo-Santa Cruz Unit | not named |
| 5 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | San Mateo-Santa Cruz Unit | not named |
| 5 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 4 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 34 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 34 workings within 5 miles of POLARIS (research vessel): 17 producers, 15 past producers, 2 unknowns. 17 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Mercury, Salt. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ideal Cement Company | Limestone, General, Clay | Producer | ||
| Redwood City Operation | Halite | Producer | ||
| Granite Rock | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Granite Rock | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Kaiser Gypsum | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Kaiser Gypsum | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Past Producer | ||
| Redwood City Operation | Salt | Past Producer | ||
| Redwood City Plant | Salt | Producer | ||
| Redwood City Plant | Salt | Producer | ||
| Challenge | Mercury | Past Producer | 1955 |
Storms near this property
5 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Redwood City, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 3 heavy rain, 1 hail, 1 lightning. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2022 | Heavy Rain | Redwood City | - | Redwood City with 4.47. ||12/31/2022 was the 3rd wettest in a record that goes back to 1906. The daily rainfall made up 42.8% of December 2022's rainfall.||The wettest day on record at Redwood City was back on 10/13/1962 with 4.88 inches. |
| August 2020 | Lightning | Redwood City | - | Lightning struck a redwood tree in Redwood City https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2020/08/16/lightning-from-rare-bay-area-thunderstorm-leaves-damage-in-its-wake/. |
| January 2019 | Hail | Redwood City | - | Small thunderstorm cell moved just south of Redwood City. Public reported small hail. |
| February 2015 | Heavy Rain | Redwood City | - | A 72 hour rainfall total of 5.43 inches was measured from Emerald Lake Hills at elevation 472 feet. This was the highest storm total in San Mateo County. |
| March 1996 | Heavy Rain (F0) | Redwood City | - | no account filed |
Maps showing this location
19 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.
- 1899 USGS Haywards quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
- 1915 USGS Hayward quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1915 USGS Haywards quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1942 USGS Hayward quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Redwood Point quadrangle1:24000
- 1948 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
- 1957 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Hayward quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Redwood Point quadrangle1:24000 - 7 printings
- 1960 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
- 1985 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1993 USGS Redwood Point quadrangle1:24000
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Redwood City Historic Commercial Buildings | 1.7 miles | 1977 |
 | Lathrop House | 1.7 miles | 1973 |
 | San Mateo County Courthouse | 1.7 miles | 1977 |
 | New Sequoia Theater Building | 1.8 miles | 1994 |
 | John Dielmann House | 1.8 miles | 2015 |
 | John Offerman House | 1.8 miles | 2015 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 15000100 in Record Group 79. |
| San Mateo County | All 63 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.