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Photograph of Mare Island Naval Shipyard
Photograph by Unknown, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Mare Island Naval Shipyard

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

“The Mare Island Naval Shipyard was the first United States Navy base established on the Pacific Ocean and was in service 142 years from 1854 to 1996. It is located on the peninsula of Mare Island, which is part of the city of Vallejo, on San Pablo Bay in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, 23 miles (37 km) northeast of San Francisco.”

Wikipedia article Mare Island Naval Shipyard, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 38 National Register listings published here for Solano County · listed in 1975 · category: District · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

  • Address. Mare Island, Vallejo
  • When was it listed? May 1975
  • Category. district
  • Census division. Vallejo
  • National Register reference number. 75002103 - 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

1902 to 1983

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Mare Island Naval Shipyard, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet covering Mare Island Naval Shipyard, surveyed 1902

Fires near this property

449 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 449 fires within 5 miles of Mare Island Naval Shipyard between 1992 and 2020, burning about 725 acres in total. None started naturally. 34 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/undetermined330
Arson/incendiarism34
Smoking25
Equipment and vehicle use25
Misuse of fire by a minor21
Debris and open burning8
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Fireworks1

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
9 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
8 September 2007Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
8 September 2005Smoking1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSanta Clara Unitnot named
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSanta Clara Unitnot named
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
6 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSanta Clara Unitnot named
4 September 2020Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa Unitnot named

Every fire recorded in Solano County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Mare Island Naval Shipyard: 8 unknowns, 2 occurrences, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Mercury, Stone, Dimension, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
McnearsStone, DimensionOccurrence
QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Borges ProspectMercuryOccurrenceCinnabar
Borges ProspectMercuryUnknown
Brownlie PropertyMercuryPast ProducerCinnabar
Brownlie ProspectMercuryUnknown
Lake HermanStoneUnknown
McnearsStonePast Producer
QuarryStoneUnknown
QuarryStoneUnknown

Every working recorded in Solano County

Storms near this property

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vallejo, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2000: 2 heavy rain, 1 funnel cloud. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2000Heavy RainVallejo$50,000no account filed
February 2000Heavy RainVallejo$20,000no account filed
March 1998Funnel CloudVallejo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Solano County

Maps showing this location

12 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

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Building H-84, Mare Island0.3 miles1997
Building 926 (Wilderman Hall), Mare Island0.4 miles1997
Building H-71, Mare Island0.4 miles1997
Building 928 (Garage), Mare Island0.4 miles1997
LCS-102 (landing craft support)0.8 miles2015
City Hall0.8 miles2013

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 75002103 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Solano CountyAll 38 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.