Gold Dredge

Built in 1937. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.

From the record

“The Gold Dredge, near La Grange, California, also known as the Tuolumne Gold Dredging Company Dredge, was built in 1937. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.”
Wikipedia article Gold Dredge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Stanislaus County · listed in 1971 · category: Structure · built in 1937.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. S of La Grange, La Grange, 95329
When was it listed? December 1971
Category. structure
Census division. Hughson
When was it built? 1937
National Register reference number. 71000208 - 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

201 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 201 fires within 5 miles of Gold Dredge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,506 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 19 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	100
Equipment and vehicle use	61
Arson/incendiarism	19
Debris and open burning	5
Natural	4
Smoking	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
8 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Tuolumne-Calaveras Unit	YOSEMITE
6 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Tuolumne-Calaveras Unit	HOOVER
5 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40 acres	Tuolumne-Calaveras Unit	not named
5 September 2008	Power generation/transmission/distribution	30 acres	Tuolumne-Calaveras Unit	LAKE
4 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Tuolumne-Calaveras Unit	HWY 132 STANISLAUS_COUN
30 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	RIVER
30 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Tuolumne-Calaveras Unit	DAWSON LAKE
26 September 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	146 acres	Tuolumne-Calaveras Unit	J59 #2

Every fire recorded in Stanislaus County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Gold Dredge: 6 producers, 4 occurrences, 3 unknowns, 2 past producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver, Platinum, Platinum. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Chepraco	Gold, Silver	Past Producer
Kraftile Clay Deposit	Clay	Occurrence
La Grange	Gold, Platinum, Iridium, Osmium	Producer	Stream Placer
La Grange District	Gold, Silver, Platinum	Producer	1850
La Grange Dredge No 4	Gold, Osmium, Platinum, Silver	Past Producer
Crooker Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
La Grange Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
La Grange Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Dredged Area	Gold	Occurrence
Dredged Areas	Gold	Unknown

Every working recorded in Stanislaus County

Maps showing this location

15 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.

1893 USGS Sonora quadrangle1:125000
1896 USGS Sonora quadrangle1:125000
1897 USGS Sonora quadrangle1:125000 - 8 printings
1898 USGS Sonora quadrangle1:125000
1915 USGS La Grange quadrangle1:24000
1919 USGS La Grange quadrangle1:31680 - 3 printings
1944 USGS Merced Falls quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1947 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Merced Falls quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS La Grange quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1962 USGS Merced Falls quadrangle1:62500
1962 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1966 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:250000
1994 USGS Oakdale 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
Old La Grange Schoolhouse	2.2 miles	1979
St. Louis Catholic Church	2.2 miles	1979
Louie's Place	2.2 miles	1979
Odd Fellows Hall	2.2 miles	1979
Shell Gas Station	2.3 miles	1979
Kingen Hotel	2.3 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 71000208 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Stanislaus County	All 24 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.