Plumas-Eureka Mill, Jamison Mines District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1891.

From the record

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Plumas County · listed in 1973 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. W of Blairsden off Alt. U.S. 40 in Plumas-Eureka State Park, Blairsden, 96103
When was it listed? July 1973
Category. district
Census division. Graeagle
National Register reference number. 73000421 - 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 1994

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 103 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Plumas-Eureka Mill, Jamison Mines District, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet covering Plumas-Eureka Mill, Jamison Mines District, surveyed 1891

Fires near this property

89 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Plumas-Eureka Mill, Jamison Mines District between 1992 and 2019, burning about 613 acres in total. 49 started naturally. 2 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
Natural	49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Recreation and ceremony	11
Smoking	7
Debris and open burning	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Other causes	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
9 September 1995	Smoking	under an acre	Plumas National Forest	SKI HILL
8 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Plumas National Forest	JOHNSVILLE
7 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Plumas National Forest	HILL
6 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Plumas National Forest	WASHINGTON
6 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Plumas National Forest	EUREKA
5 September 2017	Natural	450 acres	Plumas National Forest	EUREKA
5 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Plumas National Forest	ROSS CAMP
30 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Plumas National Forest	BEARTRAP

Every fire recorded in Plumas County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 58 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 58 workings within 5 miles of Plumas-Eureka Mill, Jamison Mines District: 24 past producers, 13 occurrences, 11 unknowns, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Lead, Silver, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Four Hills	Gold, Lead, Copper	Past Producer	Chalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Pyrite
Lakin	Gold, Lead	Past Producer
Jamison Mine	Gold, Lead, Silver, Iron, Zinc, Copper, Arsenic	Past Producer	1886, 1887, 1943
Plumas-Eureka Mine	Gold, Lead, Silver, Iron, Zinc, Copper, Arsenic	Past Producer	1851
Sierra Iron Mine	Iron	Past Producer	Contact Metasomatic
Wades Lake	Iron	Occurrence
Wades Lake	Iron	Occurrence
Plumas-Eureka	Gold, Lead, Silver	Producer
Plumas-Eureka	Gold, Lead, Silver	Past Producer
Arrastaville	Gold, Silver	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Plumas County

Storms near this property

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blairsden, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2018: 2 heavy rain. 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
May 2018	Heavy Rain	Blairsden	-	Mesonet station MWKC1, 1 mile east of Blairsden (elevation 5149 feet) reported 1.25 inches of rainfall in a 24-hour period from 24 May 0834PST to 25 May 0834PST.
November 2017	Heavy Rain	Blairsden	-	RAWS sensor at Denten Creek measured 2.79 inches of rain from 15 November 0715PST to 16 November 0715PST.

Every storm recorded in Plumas County

Maps showing this location

13 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.

1891 USGS Downieville quadrangle1:125000
1893 USGS Downieville quadrangle1:125000
1895 USGS Downieville quadrangle1:125000
1896 USGS Downieville quadrangle1:125000
1897 USGS Downieville quadrangle1:125000 - 7 printings
1937 USGS Blairsden quadrangle1:48000
1943 USGS Blairsden quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1956 USGS Blairsden quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1958 USGS Chico quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1960 USGS Chico quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Johnsville quadrangle1:24000
1979 USGS Portola quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1994 USGS Johnsville quadrangle1:24000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 73000421 in Record Group 79.
Plumas County	All 4 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.