Pacific Press Building

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1895 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 216 fires within 5 miles of Pacific Press Building between 1992 and 2020, burning about 60 acres in total. None started naturally. 24 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.

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

Every fire recorded in Alameda County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Pacific Press Building: 5 producers, 1 past producer. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Alameda County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oakland, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 7 hail, 4 flood, 3 flash flood, 2 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.

Every storm recorded in Alameda County

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.

• 1895 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:62500
• 1899 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
• 1915 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
• 1947 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
• 1948 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
• 1949 USGS Oakland West quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
• 1955 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
• 1957 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Oakland West quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
• 1960 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
• 1964 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
• 1971 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
• 1978 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
• 1985 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
• 1993 USGS Oakland West quadrangle1:24000

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
	Pardee House	under 500 feet	1976
	Greek Orthodox Church of the Assumption	under 500 feet	1978
	Oakland Public Library	0.1 miles	1983
	First Unitarian Church of Oakland	0.2 miles	1977
	Clay Building	0.2 miles	1978
	10th Street Market	0.3 miles	2001