Nobles Emigrant Trail

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1886.

From the record

“The Nobles Emigrant Trail, also known as the Fort Kearney, South Pass and Honey Lake Wagon Road, is a trail in California that was used by emigrant parties from the east as a shortened route to northern California. It was pioneered in 1851 by William Nobles, who discovered an easy shortcut between the Applegate Trail in Nevada and the Lassen Trail in California.”
Wikipedia article Nobles Emigrant Trail, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 20 National Register listings published here for Shasta 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 listing

Address. E of Shingletown in Lassen Volcanic National Park, Shingletown
When was it listed? October 1975
Category. district
Census division. Central Shasta
National Register reference number. 75000222 - 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

89 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Nobles Emigrant Trail between 1992 and 2020, burning about 29,866 acres in total. 61 started naturally. 4 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	61
Recreation and ceremony	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Arson/incendiarism	4
Smoking	3
Debris and open burning	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
7 September 2013	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Lassen Volcanic National Park	LOST FIRE
6 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Lassen Volcanic National Park	UPPER
5 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Lassen Volcanic National Park	PROSPECT
5 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Lassen Volcanic National Park	PEAK
5 September 1992	Natural	under an acre	Lassen Volcanic National Park	BEAR
3 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Lassen National Forest	GRASS
3 September 1995	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Lassen Volcanic National Park	FAIRFIELD
3 September 1992	Natural	under an acre	Lassen Volcanic National Park	CHAOS

Every fire recorded in Shasta County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Nobles Emigrant Trail: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Shasta County

Storms near this property

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shingletown, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1999 and 2018: 2 heavy rain, 1 wildfire, 1 hail. The reports record 1 injury. 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
August 1999	Wildfire	Shingletown	1 hurt	no account filed
December 2018	Heavy Rain	Shingletown	-	There was 1.49 inches of rain over 10 hours in Shingletown.
November 2017	Heavy Rain	Shingletown	-	There was 3.39 of rain reported at Shingletown over 24 hours.
June 2009	Hail	Shingletown	-	Scattered thunderstorms over the area brought hail to Shasta County. A spotter reported hail 1/4 to 3/4 inch covering the ground in the Shingletown area near Highway 44.

Every storm recorded in Shasta 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.

1886 USGS Lassen Peak quadrangle1:250000
1892 USGS Lassen Peak quadrangle1:250000
1894 USGS Lassen Peak quadrangle1:250000 - 8 printings
1939 USGS Halls Flat quadrangle1:125000 - 3 printings
1955 USGS Westwood quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Prospect Peak quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1958 USGS Westwood quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Westwood quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Susanville quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1968 USGS Susanville quadrangle1:250000
1976 USGS Burney quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings
1985 USGS West Prospect Peak quadrangle1:24000
1995 USGS West Prospect Peak quadrangle1:24000

Listed places nearby

6 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Summit Lake Ranger Station	3.4 miles	1978
Twin Lakes Fire Tool Cache	4.4 miles	2016
Prospect Peak Fire Lookout	4.8 miles	1978
Lassen Volcanic National Park Highway Historic District	5.1 miles	2006
Loomis Vistor Center, Bldg. 43	7.0 miles	1975
Manzanita Lake Naturalist's Services Historic District	7.1 miles	2006

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 75000222 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.