Angels Hotel

Built in 1851. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1889.

From the record

“The Angels Hotel in Angels Camp, California, was the hotel where the author Mark Twain heard a story that he would later turn into his short story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County".”
Wikipedia article Angels Hotel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 16 National Register listings published here for Calaveras County · listed in 1972 · category: Building · built in 1851.

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 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Main St. at Birds Way, Angels Camp, 95222
When was it listed? March 1972
Category. building
Census division. Angels City
When was it built? 1851
National Register reference number. 72000220 - 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.

Then and now

1889 to 1993

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 104 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Angels Hotel, surveyed 1993

Topographic sheet covering Angels Hotel, surveyed 1889

Fires near this property

312 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 312 fires within 5 miles of Angels Hotel between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,025 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 24 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	112
Equipment and vehicle use	89
Debris and open burning	44
Arson/incendiarism	24
Natural	17
Power generation/transmission/distribution	11
Smoking	8
Recreation and ceremony	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 2011	Natural	under an acre	Tuolumne-Calaveras Unit	BLUFF
9 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Tuolumne-Calaveras Unit	LIGHTNING 4
9 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Tuolumne-Calaveras Unit	POAG
8 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Central California District	NATURAL BRIDGES
8 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Tuolumne-Calaveras Unit	ROLLERI
6 September 2012	Natural	7.5 acres	Tuolumne-Calaveras Unit	2-7
6 September 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Tuolumne-Calaveras Unit	WALTERS
6 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Tuolumne-Calaveras Unit	HWY 4 #8

Every fire recorded in Calaveras County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 542 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 542 workings within 5 miles of Angels Hotel: 210 past producers, 191 occurrences, 102 unknowns, 33 producers. 34 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Manganese, Copper. 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
Altaville	Gold, Platinum	Producer	Stream Placer
Angels Camp Deep Mine	Gold, Silver, Molybdenum	Past Producer	Gold, Molybdenite, Silver
Carson Creek	Gold, Silver, Zinc	Past Producer	Gold, Silver, Tetrahedrite
Deposits	Limestone, Dimension	Occurrence
Iron Rock	Silica	Unknown
Mcquig	Gold, Lead	Past Producer	Galena, Gold, Pyrite
Peirano	Gold, Stone	Past Producer	Gold, Soapstone
Radium No. 1	Uranium	Occurrence
Stanislaus Mine	Silver, Mercury	Occurrence	Gold
Stanislaus Mine	Silver, Mercury	Unknown

Every working recorded in Calaveras County

Maps showing this location

13 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.

1889 USGS Jackson quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Jackson quadrangle1:125000
1897 USGS Jackson quadrangle1:125000
1902 USGS Jackson quadrangle1:125000 - 7 printings
1945 USGS San Andreas quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1947 USGS San Andreas quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1962 USGS Angels Camp quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1962 USGS San Andreas quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1993 USGS San Andreas quadrangle1:100000

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
Utica Mansion	0.2 miles	1984
Calaveras County Bank	0.3 miles	1985
Sam Choy Brick Store	0.4 miles	1984
Altaville Grammar School	1.3 miles	1979
Douglas Flat School	6.0 miles	1973
Murphys Hotel	6.5 miles	1971

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 72000220 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Calaveras County	All 16 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.