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Photograph of Lyford's Stone Tower
Photograph by Frank Schulenburg, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Lyford's Stone Tower

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. 19 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.

From the record

One of 50 National Register listings published here for Marin County · listed in 1976 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 2034 Paradise Dr., Tiburon, 94920
  • When was it listed? December 1976
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Southeast Marin
  • National Register reference number. 76000497 - 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

1895 to 1995

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 100 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Lyford's Stone Tower, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet covering Lyford's Stone Tower, surveyed 1895

Fires near this property

138 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 138 fires within 5 miles of Lyford's Stone Tower between 1992 and 2020, burning about 380 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined56
Recreation and ceremony29
Equipment and vehicle use12
Smoking11
Arson/incendiarism8
Fireworks6
Natural5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Debris and open burning3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Other causes2

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 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMarin County Fire Departmentnot named
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresMarin County Fire Departmentnot named
5 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
5 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGolden Gate National Recreation AreaALTA
3 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGolden Gate National Recreation AreaMEADOW
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
27 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGolden Gate National Recreation AreaLOG CABIN
24 September 1993Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresGolden Gate National Recreation AreaTV#1

Every fire recorded in Marin County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Lyford's Stone Tower: 8 occurrences, 6 producers, 3 unknowns, 2 prospects. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Manganese, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, 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
Fort BakerGold, ManganeseOccurrence1914
Lime PointGemstoneOccurrence1935
Tiburon Ridge FlagstoneStone, Stone, DimensionOccurrence
Angel Island DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Blake Brothers QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
United Materials and Richmond Pressed Brick Co.ClayProducer1907
Untd. Mtrls. & Rchmnd.Prssd.Brck.CoClayPast Producer
Ft BakerStoneUnknown
Richmond Point RichmondStoneOccurrence
Unnamed LocationStoneOccurrence

Every working recorded in Marin County

Maps showing this location

19 surveys

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.

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
San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad Station House-Depot0.2 miles1995
St. Hilary's Mission Church0.5 miles2020
Valentine Rey House0.8 miles1982
Angel Island Immigration Station1.3 miles1971
William G. Barrett House2.1 miles1980
Sausalito Woman's Club2.3 miles1993

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 76000497 in Record Group 79.
Marin CountyAll 50 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.