Mendocino and Headlands Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1920.

From the record

“The Mendocino and Headlands Historic District is a nationally recognized and locally protected historic district in Mendocino, California. It is bounded roughly by the Pacific Ocean on the west and south, Little Lake Street on the north and California State Route 1 on the east.”
Wikipedia article Mendocino and Headlands Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 42 National Register listings published here for Mendocino County · listed in 1971 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Bounded roughly by the Pacific Ocean on the W and S, Little Lake St. on the N, and CA 1 on the E, Mendocino, 95460
When was it listed? July 1971
Category. district
Census division. Mendocino
Architect. http://www.wikidata.org/.well-known/genid/2c1897600ce65a174a481fbab1b56a66
National Register reference number. 71000165 - 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

198 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 198 fires within 5 miles of Mendocino and Headlands Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 193 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 5 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	84
Debris and open burning	36
Equipment and vehicle use	23
Recreation and ceremony	20
Smoking	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Arson/incendiarism	5
Natural	4
Other causes	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 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Northern California District	PENNOCK
9 September 1993	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Mendocino Unit	TUPPER
7 September 2009	Smoking	1.0 acres	Mendocino Unit	LAKE
7 September 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Northern California District	CASPAR
7 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Mendocino Unit	HEADLANDS
7 September 1992	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Mendocino Unit	STATE PARKS #3
6 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Mendocino Unit	WOODLANDS CDF MENDO
6 September 2003	Natural	1.0 acres	Mendocino Unit	LIGHTNING103

Every fire recorded in Mendocino County

Maps showing this location

7 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.

1920 USGS Fort Bragg quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Fort Bragg quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Ukiah quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS Fort Bragg quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1960 USGS Mendocino quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS Ukiah quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1981 USGS Ukiah quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Jerome B. Ford House	0.3 miles	2010
Point Cabrillo Light Station	3.0 miles	1991
FROLIC (brig)	3.5 miles	1991
Albion River Bridge	5.8 miles	2017
Albion River Bridge	5.9 miles	2017
Mendocino Woodlands Recreational Demonstration Area	5.9 miles	1997

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 71000165 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Mendocino County	All 42 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.
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.