Old City Hall Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1890.

From the record

One of 20 National Register listings published here for Shasta County · listed in 1978 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 1313 Market St., Redding, 96001
When was it listed? November 1978
Category. building
Census division. Redding
National Register reference number. 78000790 - 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

710 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 710 fires within 5 miles of Old City Hall Building between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,048 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 119 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	271
Equipment and vehicle use	120
Arson/incendiarism	119
Smoking	61
Misuse of fire by a minor	57
Debris and open burning	56
Recreation and ceremony	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	7
Natural	5
Other causes	3
Fireworks	1
Firearms and explosives use	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Shasta-Trinity Unit	OLD 3
8 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Shasta-Trinity Unit	MIDDLE 2
8 September 1999	Smoking	1.0 acres	Shasta-Trinity Unit	CHURN
8 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Northern California District	KESWICK 2
8 September 1992	Smoking	2.0 acres	Shasta-Trinity Unit	CLOUGH
7 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Shasta-Trinity Unit	OLD ALTURAS RD SHASTAC 5
7 September 2007	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
7 September 2007	Smoking	1.6 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named

Every fire recorded in Shasta County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 131 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 131 workings within 5 miles of Old City Hall Building: 56 past producers, 43 unknowns, 19 occurrences, 12 producers. 12 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Black Spider	Gold, Copper, Iron	Past Producer	Gold
Brush Mountain Pit	Pumice	Producer
Buena Vista	Gold, Copper, Tungsten	Occurrence	Chalcopyrite, Gold, Pyrite, Scheelite
Calaveras Cement Div.	Limestone, General, Clay	Producer
Cleavland	Gold, Copper, Lead, Iron	Past Producer	Gold
Hein Brothers	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone	Occurrence
Horstman	Gold, Lead	Occurrence	Vein
Horstman	Gold, Lead	Past Producer	Galena, Gold, Pyrite
Silver King	Gold, Copper, Silver	Producer	Argentite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Pyrite, Tetrahedrite
Walker	Gold, Copper, Silver	Past Producer	Copper, Gold, Silver

Every working recorded in Shasta County

Storms near this property

23 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Redding, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 12 heavy rain, 6 wildfire, 2 hail, 2 flood. The reports record 4 deaths and 12 injuries. 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
November 1996	Heavy Rain	Redding	2 killed	no account filed
December 2025	Flash Flood	Redding	1 killed, $7,000,000	A Convergence Zone set up over Redding/Shasta County around 1 PM on Sunday, December 21. Heavy rain fell until around 7 PM, where there was a lull before another line redeveloped and brought additional moderate to heavy rain into the late evening. County officials reported numerous reports of widespread flash flooding, stranded vehicles, and road closures. Commercial and residential damage was reported to over 170 structures with preliminary damage estimates upwards of 7 million dollars, from both public and private. One fatality was reported. Rain estimates were around 3-7 in 9 hours over the Redding and Southern Shasta County Area.
March 2009	Heavy Rain	Redding	1 killed	Local law enforcement reported one fatality and numerous accidents in the Redding area due to heavy rain and local flooding. Total rainfall amounts up to 4.46 inches were reported by COCORAHS observers. Clogged and overwhelmed storm drains caused numerous road and business closures across the area. A 25 year old man was reported to have drowned after falling into Calaboose Creek. His body was found in the creek near Cypress Ave.
October 1999	Wildfire	Redding	4 hurt, $13,300,000	no account filed
September 1999	Wildfire	Redding	3 hurt	no account filed
August 1999	Wildfire	Redding	3 hurt	no account filed
September 1999	Wildfire	Redding	1 hurt, $4,500,000	no account filed
February 2000	Heavy Rain	Redding	1 hurt, $10,000	no account filed
August 2000	Wildfire	Redding	$500,000	no account filed
December 2014	Flood	Redding	$50,000	Boulder Creek over topped banks and flooded Premier RV Resort.
March 2019	Heavy Rain	Redding	-	There was 1.55 inches of rain measured in 45 minutes near downtown Redding.
January 2017	Heavy Rain	Redding	-	There were 3.58 over 24 hours in Redding, 1.03 overnight until 0730, then 2.55 until 1730.
February 2017	Heavy Rain	Redding	-	There were 4.43 of rain measured at Redding over 24 hours.
February 2017	Heavy Rain	Redding	-	There were 4.35 of rain measured over 24 hours in Redding.
January 2016	Heavy Rain	Redding	-	A spotter measured 0.95 inches over 24 hours in Redding.
January 2016	Heavy Rain	Redding	-	There was a 24 hour total of 2.55 inches of rain.
December 2016	Heavy Rain	Redding	-	A trained spotter 1 mile north of Redding reported heavy rain, 1.87 over 24 hours.
October 2016	Heavy Rain	Redding	-	There were 1.37 inches of rain in the morning. Widespread small tree limbs were reported down.
September 2000	Heavy Rain	Redding	-	no account filed
January 1999	Hail	Redding	-	no account filed
November 1998	Flood	Redding	-	no account filed
June 1997	Wildfire	Redding	-	no account filed
March 1996	Hail	Redding	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Shasta County

Maps showing this location

8 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.

1890 USGS Red Bluff quadrangle1:250000
1894 USGS Red Bluff quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
1901 USGS Redding quadrangle1:125000 - 7 printings
1944 USGS Redding quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1946 USGS Redding quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Redding quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1958 USGS Redding quadrangle1:250000 - 5 printings
1984 USGS Redding quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

5 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
Edward Frisbie House	0.1 miles	1990
Pine Street School	0.2 miles	1978
Lorenz Hotel	0.2 miles	2012
Cascade Theatre	0.3 miles	2002
Shasta State Historic Park	5.3 miles	1971

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78000790 in Record Group 79.
Shasta County	All 20 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.