Rhine House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1942.

From the record

One of 88 National Register listings published here for Napa County · listed in 1972 · category: Building.

Sources: 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. 2000 Main St., St. Helena, 94574
When was it listed? February 1972
Category. building
Census division. St. Helena
National Register reference number. 72000242 - 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

218 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 218 fires within 5 miles of Rhine House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 68,212 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 13 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	86
Equipment and vehicle use	61
Debris and open burning	37
Arson/incendiarism	13
Smoking	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	8
Recreation and ceremony	3
Natural	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 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	SPRING
8 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	WEST
6 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	SPRING WHITE 2
5 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	SMOKEY OAK
4 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	HOFACKET
28 September 2007	Smoking	under an acre	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	LAS POSADAS RD ANGWIN 22
28 September 1998	Smoking	under an acre	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	WILSON
28 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	WHITEHALL

Every fire recorded in Napa County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 27 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of Rhine House: 12 occurrences, 5 producers, 4 past producers, 4 prospects. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Mercury, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Iron. 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
Moore Creek Prospect	Manganese	Past Producer	1918
Annadel Farm	Perlite	Producer
Glass Mountain Deposit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Prospect
Mount Hood Mine	Chromium	Unknown
Napa Valley Stone	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Stirling	Iron	Occurrence	Hematite
Sullinger Claim	Chromium	Occurrence	Chromite
Unnamed Location	Perlite	Occurrence
Unnamed Location	Iron	Unknown
Glass Mountain Deposit	Stone	Occurrence	Obsidian

Every working recorded in Napa 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.

1942 USGS St. Helena quadrangle1:62500
1945 USGS St. Helena quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1947 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS St. Helena quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1960 USGS St. Helena quadrangle1:24000 - 6 printings
1962 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Healdsburg 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
Greystone Cellars	0.4 miles	1978
J.C. Weinberger Winery	0.5 miles	2015
Beringer Brothers-Los Hermanos Winery	0.6 miles	2001
Charles Krug Winery	0.7 miles	1974
Saint Helena Southern Pacific Railroad Depot	1.1 miles	1997
Chateau Chevalier	1.1 miles	1987

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 72000242 in Record Group 79.
Napa County	All 88 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.