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One of 52 National Register listings published here for Humboldt County · listed in 1978 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Carlotta Hotel
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1944.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 4 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Central Ave., Carlotta, 95528
- When was it listed? May 1978
- Category. building
- Census division. Fortuna
- National Register reference number. 78000671 - 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
1944 to 1987The ground this property stands on, surveyed 43 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Fires near this property
129 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 129 fires within 5 miles of Carlotta Hotel between 1992 and 2020, burning about 223 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 4 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 | 46 |
| Debris and open burning | 32 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 26 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 9 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Fireworks | 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 1996 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Humboldt-Del Norte Unit | FOX |
| 6 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Humboldt-Del Norte Unit | YARD |
| 5 September 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Humboldt-Del Norte Unit | LOOP |
| 30 September 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Humboldt-Del Norte Unit | CARLOTTA |
| 28 September 2013 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Humboldt-Del Norte Unit | CEMETARY |
| 28 September 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Humboldt-Del Norte Unit | LIGHTNING 3-2 |
| 28 September 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Humboldt-Del Norte Unit | LIGHTNING |
| 22 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Humboldt-Del Norte Unit | HYDESVILLE |
Mines and quarries near this property
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Carlotta Hotel: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Limestone | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Unnamed Limestone | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Van Duzen River Bar | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this property
5 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carlotta, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2019 and 2025: 5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2025 | Flood | Carlotta | - | Flooding 1 mile east southeast of Carlotta, closing Highway 36.|Lat. 40.52N, Long. -124.03W. |
| December 2025 | Flood | Carlotta | - | Flooding reported throughout Carlotta. Flooding closed Highway 36 near the Carlotta fire station. |
| January 2024 | Flood | Carlotta | - | Highway 36 closed due to flooding from nearby creeks. |
| February 2024 | Flood | Carlotta | - | Highway 36 closed due to flooding near Carlotta. |
| February 2019 | Flood | Carlotta | - | East and westbound Highway 36 full closure near Carlotta. Flooding likely due to water overflowing Cummings Creek. |
Maps showing this location
7 surveysUnited 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.
- 1944 USGS Fortuna quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
- 1949 USGS Eureka quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Eureka quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Fortuna quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Eureka quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1979 USGS Hydesville quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1987 USGS Eureka quadrangle1:100000
Listed places nearby
2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Grizzly Bluff School | 6.1 miles | 1979 |
 | Gushaw-Mudgett House | 6.7 miles | 1982 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 78000671 in Record Group 79. |
| Humboldt County | All 52 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.