DELTA KING

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1910.

From the record

“Delta King is a 285-foot-long sternwheel steamboat (87 m) and the sister ship of Delta Queen, built in Glasgow, Scotland and Stockton, California for the California Transportation Company's service between Sacramento and San Francisco, California. She entered service in 1927 and continued until 1940.”
Wikipedia article Delta King, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 38 National Register listings published here for Solano County · listed in 1978 · category: Structure.

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 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. 3 mi. (4.8 km) N of Rio Vista on CA 84, Rio Vista, 94571
When was it listed? March 1978
Category. structure
Census division. Rio Vista
National Register reference number. 78000797 - 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

12 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of DELTA KING between 2006 and 2018, burning about 28 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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	8
Arson/incendiarism	2
Debris and open burning	1
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
22 September 2006	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
6 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9.0 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
23 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
5 July 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
31 July 2010	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
6 June 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
18 June 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
17 June 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Amador-El Dorado Unit	not named

Every fire recorded in Solano County

Maps showing this location

9 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.

1910 USGS Rio Vista quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1947 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000
1952 USGS Rio Vista quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1953 USGS Rio Vista quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1956 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1978 USGS Rio Vista quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1993 USGS Lodi quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78000797 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Solano County	All 38 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.