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Knights Ferry

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1916.

From the record

“Knights Ferry is an unincorporated historic community and census-designated place (CDP) in Stanislaus County, California, United States. Nestled in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, it is about 30 miles (48 km) east of Modesto on the Stanislaus River.”

Wikipedia article Knights Ferry, California, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Stanislaus 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

Fires near this property

219 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 219 fires within 5 miles of Knights Ferry between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,874 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 19 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined93
Equipment and vehicle use82
Arson/incendiarism19
Debris and open burning7
Smoking5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony2

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
8 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined573 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionTULLOCH
8 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTuolumne-Calaveras UnitHWY 108 / KENNEDY RD
8 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTuolumne-Calaveras UnitSCHELL
8 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTuolumne-Calaveras UnitMAXWELL
6 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTuolumne-Calaveras UnitFRYMIRE
5 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTuolumne-Calaveras UnitRODDEN
3 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionORANGE BLOSSOM RD OAKDAL
3 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.8 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionTULLOCH

Every fire recorded in Stanislaus County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 32 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 32 workings within 5 miles of Knights Ferry: 12 unknowns, 10 occurrences, 4 producers, 4 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Mineral Pigments. 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
Hughes MineManganesePast Producer1918
JackassGold, SilverPast Producer
Winkler PropertyClayOccurrence
California Ocher Mining Co.Mineral PigmentsOccurrence
VoyleMineral PigmentsPast Producer
Weidman RanchMineral PigmentsOccurrence
Bartlett RanchStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
California Ochre Mining CoStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
VoyleStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Weidman Ranch DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence

Every working recorded in Stanislaus County

Maps showing this location

10 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.

Listed places nearby

1 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Knight's Ferry Bridgeunder 500 feet2012

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 75000490 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Stanislaus CountyAll 24 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.