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Photograph of Harmony Borax Works
Photograph by Paul Hermans, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Harmony Borax Works

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1933.

From the record

“The Harmony Borax Works is located in Death Valley at Furnace Creek Springs, then called Greenland. It is now located within Death Valley National Park in Inyo County, California.”

Wikipedia article Harmony 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, Stovepipe Wells
  • When was it listed? December 1974
  • Category. district
  • National Register reference number. 74000339 - 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.

Maps showing this location

11 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 74000339 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.