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One of 35 National Register listings published here for Placer County · listed in 1978 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Summit Soda Springs
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1891.
The listing
- Address. SE of Soda Springs, Soda Springs
- When was it listed? December 1978
- Category. district
- Census division. Foresthill-Back Country
- National Register reference number. 78000734 - 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
1891 to 2000The ground this property stands on, surveyed 109 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
96 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Summit Soda Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 74 acres in total. 68 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 68 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 17 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Tahoe National Forest | CARPENTER 1 |
| 29 September 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Tahoe National Forest | TALBOT |
| 26 September 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Tahoe National Forest | KNOB |
| 24 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Tahoe National Forest | NORTHSTAR |
| 24 September 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Tahoe National Forest | PALISADE |
| 2 September 1992 | Natural | under an acre | Tahoe National Forest | NATHAN |
| 18 September 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Tahoe National Forest | CEDARS |
| 14 September 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Tahoe National Forest | SERENA |
Mines and quarries near this property
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Summit Soda Springs: 2 occurrences, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Chromium, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Location | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| Wubbena | Gold, Silver, Chromium | Past Producer | ||
| Deer Creek | Gold | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Location | Gold | Occurrence |
Maps showing this location
11 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 Truckee quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Truckee quadrangle1:125000
- 1895 USGS Truckee quadrangle1:125000 - 9 printings
- 1932 USGS Truckee quadrangle1:96000
- 1940 USGS Truckee quadrangle1:125000 - 4 printings
- 1953 USGS Granite Chief quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
- 1953 USGS Granite Chief quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
- 1958 USGS Chico quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Chico quadrangle1:250000
- 1977 USGS Truckee quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
- 2000 USGS Granite Chief quadrangle1:24000
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 78000734 in Record Group 79. |
| 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.