Photograph of Big Creek Hydroelectric Project — Photograph by kallahar, CC BY 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Big Creek Hydroelectric System Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1936.

From the record

“The Big Creek Hydroelectric Project is an extensive hydroelectric power scheme on the upper San Joaquin River system, in the Sierra Nevada of central California. The project is owned and operated by Southern California Edison (SCE).”
Wikipedia article Big Creek Hydroelectric Project, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 44 National Register listings published here for Fresno County · listed in 2016 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly from Big Creek to Northern Los Angeles, Big Creek, 93226
When was it listed? July 2016
Category. district
National Register reference number. 16000468 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Storms near this property

3 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Big Creek, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2006 and 2022: 1 flash flood, 1 debris flow, 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
December 2022	Flood	Big Creek	-	California Highway Patrol reported rocks on the road blocking east bound lanes of Huntington Lake Road.
October 2021	Debris Flow	Big Creek	-	California Highway Patrol reported two large boulders in the roadway on Mountain Spruce Rd. in Big Creek.
July 2006	Flash Flood	Big Creek	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fresno County

Maps showing this location

12 surveys

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.

1936 USGS Tobias Peak quadrangle1:125000
1936 USGS White River quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1943 USGS Tobias Peak quadrangle1:125000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1952 USGS White River quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1955 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1965 USGS White River quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1966 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Isabella Lake quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 16000468 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Fresno County	All 44 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.
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.