A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1834 (Monterey Colonial architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1916.
From the record
“Rancho Petaluma Adobe is a historic ranch house in Sonoma County, California. It was built from adobe bricks in 1836 by order of Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo.”
Wikipedia article Rancho Petaluma Adobe, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 73 National Register listings published here for Sonoma County · listed in 1970 · category: Building · built in 1834, Monterey Colonial architecture · a National Historic Landmark.
National Register reference number.70000151- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Then and now
1916 to 1983
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
67 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19161983
Fires near this property
298 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 298 fires within 5 miles of Petaluma Adobe
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 754 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
Equipment and vehicle use
121
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
119
Arson/incendiarism
18
Power generation/transmission/distribution
12
Misuse of fire by a minor
9
Debris and open burning
9
Smoking
7
Natural
1
Fireworks
1
Recreation and ceremony
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 2007
Equipment and vehicle use
under an acre
Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit
HWY 101 / KASTANIA RD 6
9 September 2005
Arson/incendiarism
2.0 acres
Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit
LAKEVILLE
9 September 1995
Arson/incendiarism
under an acre
Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit
D STREET
8 September 1999
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
2.0 acres
Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit
ADOBE
7 September 2012
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
2.0 acres
Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit
GROVE
7 September 1992
Smoking
under an acre
Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit
ADOBE
6 September 2018
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
24 workings within 5 miles of Petaluma Adobe: 12 producers, 9 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 prospect.
12 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Graphite. 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
Petaluma, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 6 hail, 5 flash flood, 3 flood, 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.
Flash Flood on Willow Brook at Stoney Point Road near Petaluma. 25 homes near the river were evacuated as well as 40 to 50 residents of a Mobile home park.
Very heavy rain caused flash flooding around Petaluma late Friday night, January 26th. The Petaluma River near Corona Road went over its flood stage of 25.5 feet reaching nearly 30 feet. At least a dozen homes were flooded as were several businesses.
The Press Democrat in Santa Rosa reported that lightning struck a PG&E circuit at 11 am the morning of the 14th causing a power outage for 25 Petaluma residents lasting through the evening|http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/8113975-181/rainfall-hail-in-sonoma-county?gallery=8113553&sba=AAS.
The Press Democrat in Santa Rosa showed multiple reports of accumulating small hail in downtown Petaluma|http://www.pressdemocrat.com/gallery/8113553-181/reader-submitted-photos-rain-hail-hits?sba=AAS&artslide=0.
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.
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.
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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