BlockFrom the record
One of 24 National Register listings published here for Yolo County · listed in 1972 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Rumsey Town Hall
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1945.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss, 1 structure, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
- Address. CA 16 at Manzanita St., Rumsey, 95679
- When was it listed? June 1972
- Category. building
- Census division. Esparto
- National Register reference number. 72000265 - 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
136 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 136 fires within 5 miles of Rumsey Town Hall between 1992 and 2020, burning about 55,472 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 53 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 47 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 13 |
| Debris and open burning | 12 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | MORGAN |
| 4 September 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | 251 acres | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | BRANCH 2 |
| 30 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | GUINDA |
| 3 September 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Northern California District | SALT |
| 3 September 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | 281 acres | Northern California District | LNU 40 |
| 3 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.0 acres | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | GUINDA |
| 29 September 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | GUINDA |
| 29 September 1996 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Central California District | LNU MIDDLE |
Storms near this property
4 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rumsey, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2017 and 2021: 2 debris flow, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2017 | Debris Flow | Rumsey | $392,000 | State Route 16 in Yolo County was closed from Rumsey Canyon to State Route 20 due to a rock/mud slide blocking the roadway. |
| January 2017 | Debris Flow | Rumsey | $365,000 | Roadway closed on Highway 16 Yolo - Rumsey to Highway 20 due to rockslide and debris in the roadway. |
| December 2021 | Flood | Rumsey | - | California highway patrol reported a slide and a 30 ft wide stream of water going across the roadway on SR16. Reported storm total rainfall amounts in the general area were in excess of 2.5 inches. |
| February 2019 | Heavy Rain | Rumsey | - | In Yolo and Colusa Counties, Hwy 16 had eastbound lanes closed at Hwy 20 and westbound lanes closed at Rumsey Canyon due to rock slides. The closest 24 hour rain report had 2.06 inches of rain. |
Maps showing this location
9 surveysUnited 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.
- 1945 USGS Rumsey 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
- 1959 USGS Guinda quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Rumsey quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
- 1962 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Healdsburg quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 72000265 in Record Group 79. |
| Yolo County | All 24 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.
- 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.