Samuel Martin House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1896.

From the record

One of 38 National Register listings published here for Solano County · listed in 1977 · 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, 1 site, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Martin, Samuel, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 293 Suisun Valley Rd., Suisun, 94534
When was it listed? May 1977
Category. building
Census division. Fairfield-Suisun City
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 77000349 - 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

1896 to 1983

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Samuel Martin House, surveyed 1983

Topographic sheet covering Samuel Martin House, surveyed 1896

Fires near this property

140 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 140 fires within 5 miles of Samuel Martin House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 769 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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/undetermined	68
Equipment and vehicle use	36
Debris and open burning	10
Arson/incendiarism	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Smoking	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
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 2005	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
5 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	SPURS
5 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	66 acres	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	CATTLE
4 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	ROCKVILLE PARK
29 September 1997	Railroad operations and maintenance	10 acres	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	SPURS
28 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	STONEFIELD 3
27 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	JAMISON
21 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named

Every fire recorded in Solano County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Samuel Martin House: 3 producers, 2 unknowns. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Mercury. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Vallejo	Mercury	Producer
Cordelia Quarry	Stone	Producer
Nelson Hill Quarry	Stone	Producer
Quarry	Stone	Unknown
Quarry	Stone	Unknown

Every working recorded in Solano County

Maps showing this location

14 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.

1896 USGS Carquinez Strait quadrangle1:62500
1898 USGS Karquines quadrangle1:62500
1901 USGS Carquinez quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1901 USGS Karquines quadrangle1:62500
1902 USGS Napa quadrangle1:125000 - 6 printings
1940 USGS Carquinez Strait quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1942 USGS Carquinez quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1951 USGS Cordelia quadrangle1:24000 - 9 printings
1958 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1962 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Napa quadrangle1:100000

Listed places nearby

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Suisun Masonic Lodge No. 55	4.7 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 77000349 in Record Group 79.
Solano County	All 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.