Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1935.
From the record
“Luther Burbank's Gold Ridge Experiment Farm is the official name of the 3 acres (12,000 m2) that remain of the farm originally purchased in 1885 by famed plant breeder Luther Burbank (1849-1926) in an area of Sebastopol, California, formerly known as the "Gold Ridge District". To these 10 acres (40,000 m2), Burbank added 5 acres (20,000 m2) in 1904 and 3.046 acres (12,330 m2) in 1906 until, in 1923, failing health compelled him to sell 3.046 acres (12,330 m2) of his holdings.”
Wikipedia article Luther Burbank's Gold Ridge Experiment Farm, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 73 National Register listings published here for Sonoma County · listed in 1978 · category: Site.
National Register reference number.78000803- 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
1935 to 1983
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
48 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19351983
Fires near this property
160 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 160 fires within 5 miles of Gold Ridge Farm
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 170 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 9 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
59
Equipment and vehicle use
57
Debris and open burning
17
Smoking
10
Arson/incendiarism
9
Power generation/transmission/distribution
3
Misuse of fire by a minor
3
Recreation and ceremony
1
Natural
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
8 September 2010
Equipment and vehicle use
6.0 acres
Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit
VALLEY 2
8 September 2004
Equipment and vehicle use
under an acre
Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit
BARNETT
6 September 2010
Equipment and vehicle use
under an acre
Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit
BODEGA
6 September 1995
Arson/incendiarism
1.0 acres
Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit
GRATON
5 September 2002
Equipment and vehicle use
under an acre
Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit
BARNETT
4 September 2008
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit
BARNETT
4 September 2005
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
7 workings within 5 miles of Gold Ridge Farm: 5 unknowns, 1 past producer, 1 occurrence.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mercury, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Garnet. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Sebastopol, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2014 and 2019: 6 flood, 1 heavy rain, 1 funnel cloud.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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