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One of 49 National Register listings published here for Contra Costa County · listed in 2015 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Borland House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1896.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 1005 Escobar St., Martinez, 94553
- When was it listed? April 2015
- Category. building
- Also known as. Martinez, California MPS
- Census division. Central Contra Costa
- National Register reference number. 15000120 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1896 to 1983The ground this property stands on, surveyed 87 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
365 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 365 fires within 5 miles of Borland House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,226 acres in total. None started naturally. 59 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 | 150 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 67 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 59 |
| Smoking | 38 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 25 |
| Debris and open burning | 10 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 9 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Fireworks | 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 2015 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Santa Clara Unit | ALHAMBRA VALLEY RD BRION |
| 9 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Santa Clara Unit | FOUR |
| 7 September 2011 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Santa Clara Unit | not named |
| 7 September 2010 | Smoking | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 6 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.3 acres | Santa Clara Unit | not named |
| 6 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 18 acres | Santa Clara Unit | BRICKYARD |
| 6 September 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 5 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 13 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Borland House: 6 occurrences, 2 prospects, 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unnamed Location | Clay | Occurrence | ||
| Main Mine & Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Martinez | Stone, Dimension | Occurrence | ||
| Mcnears | Stone, Dimension | Occurrence | ||
| Port Costa Shale Quarrys | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Christen | Stone | Occurrence | ||
| Christen | Stone | Prospect | ||
| Martinez | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Mcnears | Stone | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
2 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Martinez, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2018 and 2020: 1 hail, 1 flood. 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 2020 | Flood | Martinez | - | Roadway flooding at SR-4 W and Alhambra Ave off ramp. Flooding across entire slow lane. |
| March 2018 | Hail | Martinez | - | no account filed |
Maps showing this location
16 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.
- 1896 USGS Carquinez Strait quadrangle1:62500
- 1898 USGS Karquines quadrangle1:62500
- 1901 USGS Carquinez quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
- 1901 USGS Karquines quadrangle1:62500
- 1902 USGS Napa quadrangle1:125000 - 6 printings
- 1940 USGS Carquinez Strait quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1942 USGS Carquinez quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Benicia quadrangle1:24000
- 1952 USGS Benicia quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Benicia quadrangle1:24000 - 8 printings
- 1962 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Napa 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contra Costa County Courthouse Block | under 500 feet | 1989 | |
 | Martinez Downtown Post Office | under 500 feet | 2012 |
 | Contra Costa County Hall of Records | under 500 feet | 1991 |
 | Martinez City Library | 0.1 miles | 2008 |
| Martinez Grammar School Annex | 0.3 miles | 2018 | |
 | Tucker House | 0.5 miles | 1999 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 15000120 in Record Group 79. |
| Contra Costa County | All 49 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.