Bank of Italy

Built in 1922. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1906.

From the record

“The Bank of Italy Building is a historical building in Livermore, California. It was built in 1921 and listed to the National Register of Historic Places on April 15, 1994.”
Wikipedia article Bank of Italy (Livermore, California), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 160 National Register listings published here for Alameda County · listed in 1978 · category: Building · built in 1922.

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. 2250 1st St., Livermore, 94550
When was it listed? November 1978
Category. building
Census division. Livermore-Pleasanton
When was it built? 1922
National Register reference number. 78000648 - 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

401 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 401 fires within 5 miles of Bank of Italy between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,292 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined	243
Equipment and vehicle use	86
Arson/incendiarism	34
Smoking	20
Debris and open burning	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Recreation and ceremony	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Natural	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 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Santa Clara Unit	not named
9 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	SCHOOL
9 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Santa Clara Unit	CALTRANS
8 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Santa Clara Unit	not named
8 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
7 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
7 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
7 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Santa Clara Unit	not named

Every fire recorded in Alameda County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Bank of Italy: 12 past producers, 9 producers, 1 occurrence. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Silver. 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	Recorded
Bezley Quarry	Silver	Producer
Unnamed Location	Clay	Occurrence
Buranis Bros. & Co.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Buranis Bros. & Co.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Central Maintenance Heavy Equip Shp	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
H.J. Kaiser Co. Radum Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Alameda County

Storms near this property

6 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Livermore, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 2 flood, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood, 1 debris flow. 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
February 1998	Flash Flood	Livermore	$250,000	no account filed
April 1994	Tornado (F0)	Livermore	$50,000	A small tornado skipped across a residential housing development causing minor damage to houses. A number of trees were toppled.
November 2024	Heavy Rain	Livermore	-	The Livermore COOP station recorded a new daily record rainfall of 0.67 inches for November 22.
February 2019	Flood	Livermore	-	Flooding with road corrosion at Marina Ave and Arroyo Rd.
February 2017	Debris Flow	Livermore	-	Slide blocking at least one lane EB 84 just west of Vallecitos.
December 2014	Flood	Livermore	-	Flooding blocked two right lanes of Westbound Interstate 580 before North Livermore Avenue.

Every storm recorded in Alameda 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.

1906 USGS Pleasanton quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1941 USGS Pleasanton quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Pleasanton quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Livermore quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1953 USGS Livermore quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Livermore quadrangle1:24000 - 6 printings
1961 USGS Livermore quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1962 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1966 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:250000
1989 USGS Stockton quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
D. J. Murphy House	0.1 miles	1978
Livermore Carnegie Library and Park	0.2 miles	2011
Hagemann Ranch Historic District	1.6 miles	2008
Ravenswood	2.1 miles	1979
Livermore Veterans Administration Hospital, Building 62	3.9 miles	2020
John W. Kottinger Adobe Barn	5.8 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78000648 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Alameda County	All 160 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.