Cottonwood Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1890.

From the record

“The Cottonwood Historic District, in Cottonwood, California in Shasta County, California, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. The listing included four contributing buildings on 9 acres (3.6 ha).”
Wikipedia article Cottonwood Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 20 National Register listings published here for Shasta County · listed in 1973 · category: District.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 4 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Off US 99, Cottonwood, 96022
When was it listed? July 1973
Category. district
Census division. Redding
National Register reference number. 73000456 - 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

611 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 611 fires within 5 miles of Cottonwood Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,499 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 52 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	197
Equipment and vehicle use	188
Debris and open burning	78
Arson/incendiarism	52
Smoking	39
Misuse of fire by a minor	35
Natural	12
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Fireworks	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 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Shasta-Trinity Unit	HAWES RD / KIMBERLY RD
9 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Shasta-Trinity Unit	COTTONWOOD #2
9 September 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Shasta-Trinity Unit	PANORAMA
9 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Shasta-Trinity Unit	RHONDA #2
8 September 2020	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Shasta-Trinity Unit	LONG BRANCH DR COTTONWOO
8 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Shasta-Trinity Unit	VALLEY
7 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Tehama-Glenn Unit	ANTELOPE
7 September 1992	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Tehama-Glenn Unit	REEDS

Every fire recorded in Shasta County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Cottonwood Historic District: 10 producers, 3 occurrences, 1 unknown. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Platinum, Osmium, Iridium. 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
Cottonwood Creek	Gold, Platinum, Osmium, Iridium	Producer	Stream Placer
Cottonwood Creek	Gold, PGE	Unknown
Dredge Tailings	Gold	Occurrence
Anderson Creek Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Cottonwood Creek Bar	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Cottonwood Creek Pit #1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Cottonwood Creek Pit #2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Cottonwood Creek Pit #3	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Cottonwood Sand and Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Hooker Creek Bar	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Shasta County

Storms near this property

10 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cottonwood, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 2000 and 2023: 7 flood, 2 hail, 1 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
March 2023	Flood	Cottonwood	$30,000	California Highway Patrol reported water overflowing the roadway and going into houses at Main Street and Trefoil Lane.
March 2023	Flood	Cottonwood	-	California Highway Patrol reported substantial flooding across the roadway, leading to the closure of the roadway near Gas Point Road and Park Drive.
March 2023	Flood	Cottonwood	-	California Highway Patrol reported substantial flooding across the roadway, leading to the closure of the roadway near Gas Point Road and Park Drive.
March 2023	Flood	Cottonwood	-	California Highway Patrol reported substantial flooding across the roadway, leading to the closure of the roadway near Gas Point Road and Park Drive.
April 2019	Flood	Cottonwood	-	Gas Point Road off-ramp at Highway 5 South, west bound land reported flooded.
September 2014	Flood	Cottonwood	-	CHP reported roadway flooding near Panorama Pt. Rd. and Balls Ferry Rd.
March 2009	Hail	Cottonwood	-	CHP reported up to 2 inches of hail covering Interstate 5.
July 2000	Heavy Rain	Cottonwood	-	no account filed
July 2000	Flood	Cottonwood	-	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Cottonwood	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Shasta County

Maps showing this location

7 surveys

United 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.

1890 USGS Red Bluff quadrangle1:250000
1894 USGS Red Bluff quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
1947 USGS Anderson quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Anderson quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Redding quadrangle1:250000 - 5 printings
1965 USGS Cottonwood quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1979 USGS Red Bluff quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings

Listed places nearby

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Reading Adobe Site	4.3 miles	1971

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 73000456 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Shasta County	All 20 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.