Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1906.
From the record
“Mission San José is a Spanish mission located in the present-day city of Fremont, California, United States. It was founded on June 11, 1797, by the Franciscan order and was the fourteenth Spanish mission established in California.”
Wikipedia article Mission San José (California), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 160 National Register listings published here for Alameda County · listed in 1971 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.71000131- 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.
Fires near this property
382 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 382 fires within 5 miles of Mission San Jose
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,651 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 33 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
245
Equipment and vehicle use
61
Arson/incendiarism
33
Smoking
18
Recreation and ceremony
8
Misuse of fire by a minor
7
Debris and open burning
3
Natural
3
Power generation/transmission/distribution
2
Railroad operations and maintenance
2
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 2005
Smoking
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
9 September 2004
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Santa Clara Unit
84
9 September 2002
Equipment and vehicle use
under an acre
Santa Clara Unit
PG&E #5
9 September 1996
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
8.0 acres
Santa Clara Unit
MISSON
6 September 2018
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
7.1 acres
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
SHERIDAN
6 September 2010
Smoking
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
42 workings within 5 miles of Mission San Jose: 18 past producers, 17 producers, 5 occurrences, 2 unknowns.
17 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Stone, Dimension. 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
Fremont, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2018: 1 thunderstorm wind, 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.
Large tree crashed into a KFC in Newark causing damage to the property. Wind damage likely from previous night. Fremont RAWS reported gust of 44 mph previous night.
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.
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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