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One of 35 National Register listings published here for Placer County · listed in 1977 · category: Site.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
Griffith Quarry
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1891.
The listing
- Address. Taylor Rd., Penryn, 95663
- When was it listed? October 1977
- Category. site
- Census division. Rocklin
- National Register reference number. 77000322 - 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
970 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 970 fires within 5 miles of Griffith Quarry between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,970 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 38 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 365 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 348 |
| Debris and open burning | 135 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 38 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 28 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 19 |
| Smoking | 15 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 15 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Firearms and explosives use | 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 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nevada-Yuba-Placer Unit | TUDSBURY |
| 9 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Nevada-Yuba-Placer Unit | FOLSOM |
| 9 September 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nevada-Yuba-Placer Unit | LINE |
| 8 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nevada-Yuba-Placer Unit | NEWCASTLE |
| 8 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nevada-Yuba-Placer Unit | not named |
| 8 September 2004 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nevada-Yuba-Placer Unit | CLARK |
| 8 September 1997 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 2.0 acres | Nevada-Yuba-Placer Unit | RAILROAD |
| 8 September 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nevada-Yuba-Placer Unit | HOG |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 209 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 209 workings within 5 miles of Griffith Quarry: 85 past producers, 65 unknowns, 41 occurrences, 13 producers. 13 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Lead, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Bismuth, Antimony, Arsenic | Past Producer | Argentite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Pyrite | |
| Alabama-California Mine | Silver, Gold, Lead, Arsenic, Bismuth, Antimony | Past Producer | 1860 | |
| Chicago | Gold, Lead, Copper, Silver | Unknown | ||
| Gold Blossom | Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Arsenic | Past Producer | Gold, Pyrite, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite | |
| Golden Stag | Gold, Silver, Molybdenum | Past Producer | Gold, Molybdenite | |
| Hathaway | Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc, Copper, Arsenic | Past Producer | Chalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Marcasite, Pyrite | |
| Highway Forty Mine | Gold, Lead, Silver, Copper | Unknown | ||
| Loomis Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone | Unknown | ||
| Moore Mine | Gold, Zinc, Silver, Copper, Lead | Past Producer | Chalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Pyrite, Sphalerite | |
| Ophir | Silver, Copper, Gold | Occurrence |
Storms near this property
3 since 2024Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Penryn, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2024 and 2026: 3 flood. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2026 | Flood | Penryn | - | California Highway Patrol reported roadway flooding from heavy rain on Westbound Interstate 80 at Penryn. |
| December 2025 | Flood | Penryn | - | California Highway Patrol reported roadway flooding across both lanes of Brennans Road. |
| February 2024 | Flood | Penryn | - | California Highway Patrol reported that the off ramp and ramp is under water on Interstate 80 West and Penryn Road. |
Maps showing this location
12 surveysUnited 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.
- 1891 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:125000
- 1892 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:125000 - 5 printings
- 1893 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:125000
- 1944 USGS Auburn quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
- 1947 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Auburn quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Rocklin quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
- 1967 USGS Rocklin quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
- 1994 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Griffith House | 0.3 miles | 1978 |
 | Newcastle Portuguese Hall | 2.0 miles | 1982 |
 | Auburn Fire House No. 2 | 5.5 miles | 2011 |
| Old Auburn Historic District | 5.6 miles | 1970 | |
| California Granite Company | 5.7 miles | 2012 | |
 | Oddfellows Hall | 5.8 miles | 2011 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 77000322 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Placer County | All 35 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.