Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1894.
From the record
“The Locke House and Barn is a home and outbuilding in Lockeford, California that is now the Inn at Locke House. The house, built in 1862 with addition in 1882, the barn, built in 1882, and the water tower, built in 1881, were the first structures to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places in San Joaquin County, California when the property was added to the National Register in 1972.”
Wikipedia article Locke House and Barn, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 36 National Register listings published here for San Joaquin County · listed in 1972 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.72000252- 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
78 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Locke House and Barn
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 379 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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
37
Equipment and vehicle use
29
Arson/incendiarism
3
Misuse of fire by a minor
2
Smoking
2
Power generation/transmission/distribution
2
Recreation and ceremony
1
Natural
1
Debris and open burning
1
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
6 September 2015
Equipment and vehicle use
under an acre
Tuolumne-Calaveras Unit
not named
25 September 2004
Equipment and vehicle use
under an acre
Tuolumne-Calaveras Unit
BARMBY
21 September 2008
Misuse of fire by a minor
1.0 acres
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
17 September 1996
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
2.0 acres
Amador-El Dorado Unit
COLLIER
13 September 2009
Equipment and vehicle use
1.0 acres
Amador-El Dorado Unit
LIBERTY
7 August 2015
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Tuolumne-Calaveras Unit
CLEMENTS RD / BRANDT RD
6 August 2006
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
6 workings within 5 miles of Locke House and Barn: 4 producers, 2 unknowns.
4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Lockeford, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2018 and 2025: 1 heavy rain, 1 flood.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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