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Photograph of Vallejo City Hall and County Building Branch
Photograph by Sanfranman59, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Vallejo City Hall and County Building Branch

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

“Two former city hall buildings in Vallejo, California are listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Today the old city hall built in 1872 partially houses the Temple Art Lofts, a combination art gallery and apartment complex, and the 1927 city hall houses the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum.”

Wikipedia article Vallejo City Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 38 National Register listings published here for Solano 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 Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 734 Marin St., Vallejo, 94590
  • When was it listed? November 1976
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Vallejo
  • National Register reference number. 76000535 - 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 Vallejo City Hall and County Building Branch, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet covering Vallejo City Hall and County Building Branch, surveyed 1902

Fires near this property

448 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 448 fires within 5 miles of Vallejo City Hall and County Building Branch between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,436 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/undetermined329
Arson/incendiarism34
Smoking26
Equipment and vehicle use26
Misuse of fire by a minor19
Debris and open burning9
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
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
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
4 September 2020Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa Unitnot named
4 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
4 September 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named

Every fire recorded in Solano County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Vallejo City Hall and County Building Branch: 12 unknowns, 3 occurrences, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mercury, Stone, Limestone, 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
QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unnamed LocationLimestone, DimensionOccurrence
Lake HermanStoneUnknown
Napa Junction PlantStoneUnknown
QuarryStoneUnknown
QuarryStoneUnknown
Red Rock Quarry, Ltd.StoneUnknown
Unnamed LocationStoneOccurrence
Borges ProspectMercuryOccurrenceCinnabar
Borges ProspectMercuryUnknown

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 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 76000535 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.