Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.
From the record
“The Tramway Gas Station is a landmark former Enco service station in Palm Springs, California, United States, so named because of its location at the foot of Tramway Road, the lone road leading to the base of the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway. It was intended to be the first Palm Springs building visitors saw when approaching the city from the north via California State Route 111.”
Wikipedia article Tramway Gas Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 90 National Register listings published here for Riverside County · listed in 2015 · category: Building.
National Register reference number. 15000645 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1901 to 1996
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
95 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19011996
Fires near this property
464 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 464 fires within 5 miles of Tramway Gas Station
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,810 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 28 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
263
Equipment and vehicle use
70
Smoking
41
Arson/incendiarism
28
Misuse of fire by a minor
23
Recreation and ceremony
11
Debris and open burning
10
Power generation/transmission/distribution
9
Natural
7
Other causes
1
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 2006
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
8 September 2009
Equipment and vehicle use
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
7 workings within 5 miles of Tramway Gas Station: 3 occurrences, 2 prospects, 1 past producer, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Geothermal. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
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.
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.
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