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Bok Kai Temple
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1888.
From the record
“The Bok Kai Temple is a traditional Chinese temple in the city of Marysville, California, located at the corner of D and First Streets. Since 1880, it served as the center of what was a bustling Chinatown for a small town known as the "Gateway to the Gold Fields".”
Wikipedia article Bok Kai Temple, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 10 National Register listings published here for Yuba County · listed in 1975 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.75000498- 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
1888 to 1993
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
105 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
18881993
Fires near this property
910 since 1996
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 910 fires within 5 miles of Bok Kai Temple
between 1996 and 2020, burning about 1,875 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 67 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/undetermined
590
Debris and open burning
78
Equipment and vehicle use
75
Arson/incendiarism
67
Misuse of fire by a minor
49
Smoking
38
Recreation and ceremony
11
Natural
1
Railroad operations and maintenance
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
9 September 2020
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Nevada-Yuba-Placer Unit
not named
9 September 2005
Equipment and vehicle use
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
9 September 2005
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
9 workings within 5 miles of Bok Kai Temple: 7 producers, 2 unknowns.
7 still produce. 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Marysville, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1999 and 2019: 1 wildfire, 1 lightning, 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind.
The reports record 7 injuries. 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.
Heavy rain caused a railroad bridge in Marysville to sink. The bridge spans the Yuba River. Rail traffic over the bridge was shut down. A diesel pipeline attached to the bridge also had to be shut down. Union Pacific Railroad drove in new piles to stabilize the bridge. Repairs were completed on March 27.
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.
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.
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.
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