Tidball Store

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1919.

From the record

“Tidball Store or Jolon General Store is located off Jolon Road in Jolon, California, United States, 1/4 mile south of the Dutton Hotel, Stagecoach Station. The store was constructed by pioneer, Thomas Theodore Tidball, from the remains of an old adobe inn, built in 1868 by Flint & Bixby Stage Lines.”
Wikipedia article Tidball Store, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 64 National Register listings published here for Monterey County · listed in 1976 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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. Jolon Rd., Jolon, 93930
When was it listed? December 1976
Category. building
Census division. San Ardo
National Register reference number. 76000503 - 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.

Fires near this property

53 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Tidball Store between 1993 and 2020, burning about 9,371 acres in total. 3 started naturally. None was 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
Equipment and vehicle use	20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Debris and open burning	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Natural	3
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
27 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	San Benito-Monterey Unit	YASUTAKE
24 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	San Benito-Monterey Unit	KELSE
11 September 2017	Natural	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	JOLON
10 September 2010	Smoking	2.0 acres	San Benito-Monterey Unit	CROSS
8 August 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	San Benito-Monterey Unit	SANDERS #2
30 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	San Benito-Monterey Unit	LOCKWOOD JOLON RD / MARTI
30 August 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	San Benito-Monterey Unit	EVERETT
28 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	San Benito-Monterey Unit	S&H FARMS

Every fire recorded in Monterey County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Tidball Store: 1 past producer, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Ruby Placer	Gold	Prospect
	U.S. Army Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Monterey County

Maps showing this location

12 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.

1919 USGS Bryson quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1941 USGS Bryson quadrangle1:62500
1942 USGS Bryson quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS San Luis Obispo quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Bryson quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1948 USGS San Luis Obispo quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS Jolon quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1956 USGS San Luis Obispo quadrangle1:250000 - 5 printings
1957 USGS San Luis Obispo quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS San Luis Obispo quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Bryson quadrangle1:62500
1980 USGS Cambria quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

5 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Dutton Hotel, Stagecoach Station	under 500 feet	1971
Dutton Hotel, Stagecoach Station	0.1 miles	1971
Jose Mario Gil Adobe	1.0 miles	1974
Milpitas Ranchhouse	4.5 miles	1977
San Antonio de Padua Mission	5.0 miles	1976

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 76000503 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Monterey County	All 64 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.