Brewster House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1894.

From the record

One of 106 National Register listings published here for Sacramento County · listed in 1978 · category: Building.

Sources: 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. 206 5th St., Galt, 95632
When was it listed? June 1978
Category. building
Census division. Galt
Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 78000740 - 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

6 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Brewster House between 1993 and 2019, burning about 19 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
31 August 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	7.5 acres	Amador-El Dorado Unit	MACKVILLE
3 August 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Amador-El Dorado Unit	PROUTY
17 July 2003	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Central California District	FRANKLIN
29 June 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Amador-El Dorado Unit	not named
27 October 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Tuolumne-Calaveras Unit	not named
22 October 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Central California District	SILVERADO

Every fire recorded in Sacramento County

Storms near this property

2 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Galt, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2019 and 2025: 2 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	Galt	-	California Highway Patrol reported roadway flooding along State Route 99 North and Simmerhorn Road offramp with a large puddle under the bridge due to heavy rain.
January 2019	Flood	Galt	-	California Highway Patrol reported heavy rain caused flooding of Highway 99 in Galt.

Every storm recorded in Sacramento County

Maps showing this location

10 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.

1894 USGS Lodi quadrangle1:125000 - 3 printings
1910 USGS Galt quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1941 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Galt quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1968 USGS Galt quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1993 USGS Lodi quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

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
	Brewster Building	3.1 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78000740 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sacramento County	All 106 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.