Malakoff Diggins-North Bloomfield Historic District
Built in 1965. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1891.
From the record
“Malakoff Diggins State Historic Park is a state park unit preserving Malakoff Diggins, the largest hydraulic mining site in California. The mine was one of several hydraulic mining sites at the center of the 1882 landmark case Woodruff v.”
Wikipedia article Malakoff Diggins State Historic Park, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 22 National Register listings published here for Nevada County · listed in 1973 · category: District · built in 1965.
National Register reference number.73000418- 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
1891 to 2000
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
109 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
18912000
Fires near this property
140 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 140 fires within 5 miles of Malakoff Diggins-North Bloomfield Historic District
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 171 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 7 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
44
Debris and open burning
35
Equipment and vehicle use
19
Natural
17
Recreation and ceremony
8
Arson/incendiarism
7
Misuse of fire by a minor
4
Power generation/transmission/distribution
3
Smoking
3
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
210 workings within 5 miles of Malakoff Diggins-North Bloomfield Historic District: 87 occurrences, 62 unknowns, 52 past producers, 7 producers.
7 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Copper, Platinum, Silver. 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
North Bloomfield, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2016: 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.
Four people were rescued Sunday morning after their vehicles were swept away in Greenhorn Creek in Nevada County when they attempted to cross a flooded roadway (Lower Greenhorn Road) that crosses over Greenhorn Creek.||Early Sunday morning, the Nevada County Sheriffs Office Search and Rescue team was called to the creek.||Two teams were dispatched to the river where they found four people located on the left bank of the river awaiting rescue.
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.
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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