Leadfield

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1908.

From the record

“Leadfield was an unincorporated community, and historic mining town in Inyo County, California. It is located in Titus Canyon in the Grapevine Mountains, east of Death Valley in Death Valley National Park.”
Wikipedia article Leadfield, California, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Inyo County · listed in 1975 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Death Valley National Monument on Titus Canyon Trail, Death Valley, 92328
When was it listed? June 1975
Category. district
Census division. Death Valley
National Register reference number. 75000221 - 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

1908 to 1988

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Leadfield, surveyed 1988

Topographic sheet covering Leadfield, surveyed 1908

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Leadfield: 2 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Gold, Silver. 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
March Storm	Silver, Lead	Prospect
Happy Hooligan Mine	Gold	Past Producer	Vein
Happy Hooligan Mine	Gold	Past Producer
March Storm	Lead	Occurrence

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.

1908 USGS Ballarat quadrangle1:250000
1913 USGS Ballarat quadrangle1:250000 - 7 printings
1948 USGS Death Valley quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1954 USGS Death Valley quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1956 USGS Death Valley quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Death Valley quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Grapevine Peak quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1958 USGS Death Valley quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Death Valley quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Death Valley quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Death Valley quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Saline Valley quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1988 USGS Thimble Peak quadrangle1:24000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 75000221 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Inyo County	All 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.
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.