Woodland Opera House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1907.

From the record

“The Woodland Opera House, listed on the National Register of Historic Places and a California Historical Landmark, is one of four fully functioning 19th century opera houses in California. It is a contributing property to the Downtown Historic District of Woodland, California.”
Wikipedia article Woodland Opera House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Yolo County · listed in 1971 · category: Building.

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 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 320 2nd St., Woodland, 95695
When was it listed? November 1971
Category. building
Census division. Woodland
National Register reference number. 71000212 - 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

189 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 189 fires within 5 miles of Woodland Opera House between 2005 and 2020, burning about 275 acres in total. None started naturally. 12 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	145
Equipment and vehicle use	17
Arson/incendiarism	12
Smoking	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Debris and open burning	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
4 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	not named
3 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
3 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
3 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
28 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
27 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	not named
24 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	not named
22 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.1 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named

Every fire recorded in Yolo County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Woodland Opera House: 11 unknowns, 9 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Calcium. 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
Woodland Plant	Calcium	Producer
Ashley Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Cache Creek Aggregates	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Cache Creek Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Cache Creek Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Cache Creek Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Granite Construction Co.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Granite Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Yolo County

Storms near this property

7 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodland, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 3 flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 hail. 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
March 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodland	$10,000	Strong straight-line winds downed multiple trees and utility poles near downtown Woodland. Sacramento International Airport reported a max gust of 46 mph. Time was estimated by radar.
April 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodland	$7,000	A gustnado developed ahead of a line of showers moving through the city of Woodland. The discontinuous damage path was about 1700 feet long and 20 feet across. A tree two feet in diameter was uprooted, a section of metal bleachers were moved, and several tents were damaged. There was minor damage to three mobile homes in a nearby mobile home park, with porches pulled off and large flower pots knocked over.
November 2024	Flood	Woodland	-	California Highway Patrol reported that half of the roadway was flooded at the intersection of State Route 16 and West Kentucky Avenue.
December 2021	Flood	Woodland	-	Yolo county reported numerous flooded and closed roadways. Reported storm total rainfall amounts in the area were around 2 to 2.5 inches.
January 2019	Flood	Woodland	-	The California Highway Patrol reported heavy rain caused flooding on Highway 16 in Woodland.
September 2019	Hail	Woodland	-	A spotter SO47, located on highway 113 north of Davis, reported one inch hail stones.
October 1996	Funnel Cloud	Woodland	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Yolo 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.

1907 USGS Woodland quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1915 USGS Yolo quadrangle1:31680
1941 USGS Woodland quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000
1952 USGS Woodland quadrangle1:24000 - 7 printings
1953 USGS Woodland quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1994 USGS Sacramento 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
I.O.O.F. Building	under 500 feet	1982
Yolo County Courthouse	0.1 miles	1987
Downtown Woodland Historic District	0.1 miles	1999
Woodland Public Library	0.1 miles	1981
Porter Building	0.1 miles	1978
Hotel Woodland	0.2 miles	1994

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 71000212 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Yolo 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.
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.