Photograph of Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park — Photograph by Bobak Ha'Eri, CC BY 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Allensworth Historic District

Built in 1976. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1929.

From the record

“Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park is a state park unit of California, United States, preserving Allensworth, the only California town to be founded, financed and governed by African Americans. The small farming community was founded in 1908 by Lt.”
Wikipedia article Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 35 National Register listings published here for Tulare County · listed in 1972 · category: District · built in 1976.

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

The listing

Address. Town of Allensworth and its environs along CA 43, Allensworth and, 93219
When was it listed? February 1972
Category. district
Census division. Earlimart
When was it built? 1976
National Register reference number. 72000263 - 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

194 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 194 fires within 5 miles of Allensworth Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 9,113 acres in total. None started naturally. 51 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	66
Arson/incendiarism	51
Equipment and vehicle use	46
Debris and open burning	16
Smoking	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
8 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Pixley National Wildlife Refuge	APCD 128
6 September 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	450 acres	Tulare Unit	SANTA FE #4
4 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Pixley National Wildlife Refuge	ST. CAL 98
4 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Pixley National Wildlife Refuge	ST. CAL 99
30 September 1995	Arson/incendiarism	640 acres	Tulare Unit	KERN CO. #16
27 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Tulare Unit	COUNTY #116 .
27 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Tulare Unit	COUNTY #115.
22 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30 acres	Tulare Unit	FROLICK

Every fire recorded in Tulare County

Maps showing this location

10 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.

1929 USGS Allensworth quadrangle1:31680 - 3 printings
1942 USGS Earlimart quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1954 USGS Allensworth quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1955 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1966 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000
1993 USGS Delano quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 72000263 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Tulare County	All 35 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.