A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1876. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1909.
From the record
“Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California, United States. It is about 75 miles (121 km) southeast of Lake Tahoe, and 12 mi (19 km) east-southeast of Bridgeport, at an elevation of 8,379 feet (2,554 m).”
Wikipedia article Bodie, California, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 11 National Register listings published here for Mono County · listed in 1966 · category: Building · built in 1876 · a National Historic Landmark.
National Register reference number. 66000213 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1909 to 1998
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19091998
Fires near this property
10 since 1996
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Tom Miller Stable and Ice House
between 1996 and 2020, burning about 379 acres in total. 10 started naturally. None was 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
Natural
10
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
26 workings within 5 miles of Tom Miller Stable and Ice House: 14 past producers, 7 occurrences, 4 unknowns, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Gold, Silver, Silver, Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Bridgeport, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 2004 and 2023: 5 heavy rain, 3 flood, 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind.
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.
California Land Management indicated that the Twin Lakes Campground (30 campsites) was completely shut down due to snowmelt flooding. No damage to campground property noted just the loss of income from the closed campsites.
The public reported that State Route 182 has been closed from the town of Bridgeport to the Nevada state line in Mono County due to reports of flooding. There was no estimated time of reopening.
CHP reported a fallen tree and flooding of the southbound lane of US-395 near Green Lakes Road intersection, with Green Creek overflowing out of its banks.
COCORAHS station (CA-MN-5), AWOS, and mesonet sites reported heavy rain ranging from 0.72 at Benton, CA (BETC1), to 1.16 from AWOS located at USMC MWTC Bridgeport, and 2.47 at the mesonet site (CRVC1) located 1.0 mi SSW of Crestview, CA.
CO-OP observer in Bridgeport reported 0.60 inches of rainfall in a 24 hour period from 1 March 0920PST to 2 March 0920PST. Observer elevation 6470 feet MSL.
Reports from the Mono County sheriff and the California Highway Patrol indicated hail between 0.75 and 1 inch in diameter. Hail covered highway 182 in Bridgeport to 4 inches in depth.
Over 2 inches of rainfall caused damage to the Mono County Jail in Bridgeport. The roof was being repaired and was not sufficiently protected from the unusually heavy rain. Additional heavy rainfall amounts include: Crestview RAWS with 4.36, Benton RAWS with 2.86, and Mammoth Lakes Airport with 2.09.
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.
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.
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