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One of 20 National Register listings published here for Shasta County · listed in 1971 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Shasta State Historic Park
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1890.
The listing
- Address. U.S. 299, Shasta, 96087
- When was it listed? October 1971
- Category. district
- Census division. Southwest Shasta
- National Register reference number. 71000199 - 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
542 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 542 fires within 5 miles of Shasta State Historic Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,064 acres in total. 22 started naturally. 80 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 | 183 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 93 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 80 |
| Debris and open burning | 51 |
| Smoking | 34 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 32 |
| Natural | 22 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 18 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 13 |
| Firearms and explosives use | 8 |
| Fireworks | 5 |
| Other causes | 3 |
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 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Northern California District | LOWER 5 |
| 8 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Shasta-Trinity Unit | MIDDLE 2 |
| 8 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Northern California District | KESWICK 2 |
| 7 September 1999 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Whiskeytown National Recreation Area | WHISKEYTOW |
| 7 September 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Shasta-Trinity Unit | IRON #5 |
| 6 September 2011 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Shasta-Trinity Unit | KESWICK 3 |
| 6 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Shasta-Trinity Unit | PINES |
| 5 September 2003 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Northern California District | SHU SWASEY |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 238 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 238 workings within 5 miles of Shasta State Historic Park: 100 past producers, 78 unknowns, 46 occurrences, 11 producers. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Silver, Copper, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Americus | Copper, Silver, Gold | Occurrence | Underground | |
| Boswell Group | Gold, Copper, Sulfur | Past Producer | Gold | |
| Broken Hill | Gold, Iron, Sulfur | Past Producer | Gold, Pyrite | |
| Brush Mountain Pit | Pumice | Producer | ||
| Buena Vista | Gold, Copper, Tungsten | Occurrence | Chalcopyrite, Gold, Pyrite, Scheelite | |
| Calaveras Cement Div. | Limestone, General, Clay | Producer | ||
| Cleavland | Gold, Copper, Lead, Iron | Past Producer | Gold | |
| Gambrinus | Gold, Manganese | Past Producer | Gold, Pyrite, Pyrolusite | |
| Horstman | Gold, Lead | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Horstman | Gold, Lead | Past Producer | Galena, Gold, Pyrite |
Storms near this property
4 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shasta, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1994 and 2019: 1 hail, 1 wildfire, 1 flash flood, 1 flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1999 | Wildfire | Shasta | 1 hurt | no account filed |
| March 1994 | Hail | Old Shasta | $50,000 | Hail caused minor damage in the Redding area. At Old Shasta, hail was reported to be three inches deep following the storm. |
| October 2008 | Flash Flood | Shasta | $10,000 | Rainfall near a burn area west of Redding brought debris onto the road. The California Highway Patrol reported a car being hit by rocks from a slide west of Redding. The rockslide was near mile marker 35 on Highway 299 at 11:21PST. A boulder fell in the westbound lane of Highway 299 just west of Big Flat Campground at 13:41PST. |
| April 2019 | Flood | Shasta | - | Floodwaters rose around it due to a combination of backwater effect caused by a partially plugged culvert and a breach in an upstream levee along the right bank of Rock Creek. |
Maps showing this location
8 surveysUnited 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.
- 1890 USGS Red Bluff quadrangle1:250000
- 1894 USGS Red Bluff quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
- 1901 USGS Redding quadrangle1:125000 - 7 printings
- 1944 USGS Redding quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1946 USGS Redding quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Redding quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Redding quadrangle1:250000 - 5 printings
- 1984 USGS Redding quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
Listed places nearby
5 within 8 milesOther 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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Old City Hall Building | 5.3 miles | 1978 |
 | Lorenz Hotel | 5.4 miles | 2012 |
| Pine Street School | 5.4 miles | 1978 | |
 | Edward Frisbie House | 5.4 miles | 1990 |
 | Cascade Theatre | 5.5 miles | 2002 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 71000199 in Record Group 79. |
| Shasta County | All 20 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.
- 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.