Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.
From the record
“The Emporium is a historic commercial building erected in 1897 in Jamestown, California. It was built as a department store which was short-lived, in the early 20th century served as a mercantile and telephone exchange, and from 1936 until 1967 it operated as a grocery store.”
Wikipedia article Emporium (Jamestown, California), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 32 National Register listings published here for Tuolumne County · listed in 1978 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.78000817- 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
741 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 741 fires within 5 miles of Emporium
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,991 acres in total. 23 started naturally. 42 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
306
Equipment and vehicle use
151
Debris and open burning
116
Misuse of fire by a minor
54
Arson/incendiarism
42
Natural
23
Smoking
21
Power generation/transmission/distribution
20
Recreation and ceremony
4
Other causes
2
Firearms and explosives use
1
Fireworks
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 2010
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Tuolumne-Calaveras Unit
MONO
9 September 1999
Natural
under an acre
Tuolumne-Calaveras Unit
LIGHTNING#37
9 September 1999
Natural
1.0 acres
Central California District
LIGHTING 24
9 September 1992
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1.0 acres
Tuolumne-Calaveras Unit
FERENCZY
8 September 2017
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1.8 acres
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
380 workings within 5 miles of Emporium: 148 unknowns, 98 past producers, 62 producers, 52 occurrences.
63 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Chromium, Silver, Copper. 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
Jamestown, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1999 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 flood, 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.
Tuolumne County Emergency Manager reported several trees and power poles down near the intersection of Martin Lane and Campo Seco Road. The Mount Elizabeth RAWS reported a maximum wind gusts of 61 mph.
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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