Lovejoy Homestead

Built in 1890. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. 6 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1921.

From the record

“The Lovejoy Homestead, near Branscomb, California in Mendocino County, California, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. The listing included four contributing buildings, two contributing structures, and a contributing site on 5.8 acres (2.3 ha).”
Wikipedia article Lovejoy Homestead, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 42 National Register listings published here for Mendocino County · listed in 1978 · category: Site · built in 1890.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 4 buildingss, 2 structuress, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. N of Branscomb, Branscomb, 95454
When was it listed? April 1978
Category. site
Census division. Laytonville-Leggett
When was it built? 1890
National Register reference number. 78000719 - 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

35 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Lovejoy Homestead between 1992 and 2017, burning about 1,390 acres in total. 7 started naturally. None was 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	12
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Natural	7
Debris and open burning	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Mendocino Unit	MAD CREEK #2
8 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Northern California District	BRUSH
8 September 1996	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Mendocino Unit	MAD CREEK #1
8 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Mendocino Unit	CAUGHRON
4 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Northern California District	LIGHTNING 92
3 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Mendocino Unit	LIGHTNING #60
3 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Northern California District	LIGHTNING 25
23 September 2012	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Mendocino Unit	BRANSCOMB 3

Every fire recorded in Mendocino County

Storms near this property

1 since 2025

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Branscomb, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2025: 1 heavy rain. 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	Heavy Rain	Branscomb	$1,100	Heavy rain caused a slide on Wilderness Lodge Road, 3 miles northwest of Branscomb, CA. Lat. 39.68N, Long. -123.66W.

Every storm recorded in Mendocino County

Maps showing this location

6 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.

1921 USGS Branscomb quadrangle1:62500
1951 USGS Branscomb quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1957 USGS Ukiah quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS Ukiah quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1966 USGS Lincoln Ridge quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1981 USGS Covelo quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78000719 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Mendocino County	All 42 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.
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.