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Photograph of West Miner Street-Third Street Historic District
Photograph by Publichall, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

West Miner Street-Third Street Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1886.

From the record

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Siskiyou County · listed in 1972 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. 102-402 W. Miner St. and 122-419 3rd St., Yreka, 96097
  • When was it listed? December 1972
  • Category. district
  • Census division. Yreka
  • National Register reference number. 72000258 - 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

1886 to 1948

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 62 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering West Miner Street-Third Street Historic District, surveyed 1948
Topographic sheet covering West Miner Street-Third Street Historic District, surveyed 1886

Fires near this property

306 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 306 fires within 5 miles of West Miner Street-Third Street Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,060 acres in total. 91 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/undetermined103
Natural91
Equipment and vehicle use47
Debris and open burning35
Arson/incendiarism12
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined36 acresSiskiyou UnitCCG OOK AND GREEN CAMPGRO
9 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSiskiyou UnitEASTMAN
8 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSiskiyou UnitMOTEL 6 YREKA
8 September 2004Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresSiskiyou UnitRIDGE
7 September 2017Natural3.6 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionMARLOW
7 September 2017Naturalunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionMCKINLEY
7 September 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNorthern California DistrictSKU CANAL
7 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSiskiyou UnitDELPHIC

Every fire recorded in Siskiyou County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 119 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 119 workings within 5 miles of West Miner Street-Third Street Historic District: 63 past producers, 25 unknowns, 16 occurrences, 15 producers. 15 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Chromium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
G B RussellFlagstone, StoneOccurrence
Jeff GatewoodClayOccurrence
Oberlin HillStone, Crushed/Broken, GraniteProducerSedimentary
OsgoodGold, Zinc, LeadPast Producer
Souza RanchTungsten, Copper, Gold, ZincOccurrence
Siskiyou No 431 Pioneer Port Crush.StoneProducer
Long GulchGold, LeadPast Producer
RainbowGold, LeadPast Producer
Rainbow MineGold, LeadPast Producer
Butcher HillChromiumUnknown

Every working recorded in Siskiyou County

Storms near this property

6 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yreka, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2015: 2 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 debris flow. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2015Debris FlowYreka-California Highway Patrol reported a Mud/Dirt/Rock slide across California Highway 3 at Forest Mountain Summit between Yreka and Fort Jones.
May 2005HailYreka-A spotter 1N Yreka reported 0.75 inch hail with a thunderstorm.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindYreka-See below.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindYreka-See below.
July 2001Flash FloodYreka-See below.
June 1998Flash FloodYreka-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Siskiyou County

Maps showing this location

14 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

Listed places nearby

3 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Yreka Carnegie Library0.2 miles1992
Lewis Falkenstein House0.4 miles1979
Forest House4.9 miles2011

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 72000258 in Record Group 79.
Siskiyou CountyAll 19 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.