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McHenry Mansion

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1916.

From the record

“The McHenry Mansion is a Victorian-Italianate historic house museum situated in the historic downtown of Modesto, California. It was originally built in 1883 as a residence for Robert McHenry, a prominent local resident.”

Wikipedia article McHenry Mansion, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Stanislaus County · listed in 1978 · category: Building.

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 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 906 15th St., Modesto, 95354
  • When was it listed? April 1978
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Modesto
  • Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 78000805 - 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

1,293 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,293 fires within 5 miles of McHenry Mansion between 2005 and 2020, burning about 14,457 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 131 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/undetermined1063
Arson/incendiarism131
Misuse of fire by a minor36
Smoking22
Equipment and vehicle use20
Debris and open burning14
Natural4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTuolumne-Calaveras Unitnot named
9 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTuolumne-Calaveras Unitnot named
9 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTuolumne-Calaveras Unitnot named
9 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
8 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTuolumne-Calaveras Unitnot named
8 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTuolumne-Calaveras Unitnot named
7 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named

Every fire recorded in Stanislaus County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of McHenry Mansion: 2 unknowns, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unnamed LocationClayOccurrence
Graystone Block CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Putnam Sand and Gravel CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Stanislaus County

Storms near this property

10 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Modesto, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 6 flood, 2 funnel cloud, 2 tornado. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2006FloodModesto$250,000no account filed
April 2006Tornado (F1)Modesto$15,000no account filed
March 2023FloodWest Modesto-Mudslide on SR 99 North and 6th onramp. Onramp closed.
December 2022FloodWest Modesto-CHP reported SR99 N and Kansas Ave onramp in Modesto flooding, with lanes 1 and 3 flooded. SR99 was closed in both directions through around midnight.
December 2022FloodSouth Modesto-Second and third lanes completely flooded with 2 feet of water on Highway 99 and Tuolumne Boulevard off ramp.
December 2022FloodWest Modesto-Roadway flooding at Highway 99 and Kansas Avenue off ramp with 6 to 8 inches of water in the slow lane and right hand side of the road.
March 2005Tornado (F0)Modesto-no account filed
May 2005Funnel CloudModesto-no account filed
May 1998Funnel CloudModesto-no account filed
February 1996FloodModesto-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stanislaus 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.

Listed places nearby

6 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Walter B. Wood House0.2 miles1988
U.S. Post Office0.3 miles1983
Hotel Covell0.4 miles1994
Daniel Whitmore House4.3 miles1989
Bald Eagle Ranch House5.3 miles2014
Riverbank Branch Library7.2 miles1996

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 78000805 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Stanislaus CountyAll 24 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.