Locke Historic Boarding House

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1908.

From the record

“Locke, also known as Locke Historic District, is an unincorporated community in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta of California, United States. The 14-acre town (5.7 ha) was first developed between 1893 and 1915 approximately one mile north of the town of Walnut Grove in Sacramento County.”
Wikipedia article Locke, California, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 106 National Register listings published here for Sacramento County · listed in 1971 · category: Building · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

National Historic Landmark. The highest federal designation, held by about 2,600 places in the country against roughly 100,000 Register listings.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 53 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. Bounded on the W by the Sacramento River, on the N by Locke Rd., on the E by Alley St., and on the S by Levee St., Locke, 95690
When was it listed? May 1971
Category. building
Census division. Isleton
National Register reference number. 71000174 - 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

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Locke Historic Boarding House between 2002 and 2020, burning about 42 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Debris and open burning	1
Fireworks	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
24 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	30 acres	Central California District	FRANKLIN
22 June 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Central California District	CRP VC
13 June 2020	Fireworks	under an acre	Cordelia Fire Protection District	CRP PLATFORM
3 May 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Central California District	FIELD M
20 May 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Central California District	DESMOND
9 October 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	Central California District	PRESERVE

Every fire recorded in Sacramento County

Storms near this property

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Locke, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2017: 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
February 2017	Flood	Locke	-	At 08:00 on 2/11, a levee breach on McCormack-Williamson Tract occurred at Station 28+00 on the Mokelumne River. The 150 foot wide breach was located approximately mile downstream of the upstream end of McCormack-Williamson Tract.

Every storm recorded in Sacramento County

Maps showing this location

10 surveys

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.

1908 USGS Courtland quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1916 USGS Vorden quadrangle1:31680
1947 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000
1952 USGS Courtland quadrangle1:24000 - 6 printings
1952 USGS Courtland quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1956 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1978 USGS Courtland quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1993 USGS Lodi quadrangle1:100000 - 2 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
John Stanford Brown House	0.3 miles	2004
Walnut Grove Japanese-American Historic District	0.6 miles	1990
Walnut Grove Gakuen Hall	0.6 miles	1980
Walnut Grove Chinese-American Historic District	0.7 miles	1990
Imperial Theatre	0.7 miles	1982
Walnut Grove Commercial/Residential Historic District	0.9 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 71000174 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sacramento County	All 106 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.
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.