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Photograph of Eagle Borax Works
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Eagle Borax Works

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1908.

From the record

“The Eagle Borax Works in Death Valley, California was established near Bennetts Well in 1882 by Isidore Daunet, J.M. Blanch to mine the borate deposits that Daunet discovered there in 1880.”

Wikipedia article Eagle Borax Works, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Inyo County · listed in 1974 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. Death Valley National Monument, Furnace Creek
  • When was it listed? December 1974
  • Category. district
  • Census division. Death Valley
  • National Register reference number. 74000338 - 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

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Eagle Borax Works in 1996, burning about 5 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Fireworks1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
4 July 1996Fireworks5.0 acresDeath Valley National ParkGRAPEVINE

Every fire recorded in Inyo County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Eagle Borax Works: 1 past producer, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Boron-Borates, Talc-Soapstone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Eagle Borax WorksBoron-BoratesPast Producer1875, 1882
Timmy DepositTalc-SoapstoneProspect

Every working recorded in Inyo 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 74000338 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Inyo CountyAll 9 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.