BlockFrom the record
One of 6 National Register listings published here for Del Norte County · listed in 1979 · category: Structure.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Redwood Highway
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1929.
The listing
- Address. W of Klamath, Klamath
- When was it listed? December 1979
- Category. structure
- Census division. Klamath
- National Register reference number. 79000253 - 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
1929 to 1997The ground this property stands on, surveyed 68 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Fires near this property
86 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Redwood Highway between 1992 and 2020, burning about 361 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 45 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 17 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 1992 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Redwood National and State Parks | WILSON |
| 7 September 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Redwood National and State Parks | FALSE |
| 5 September 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Redwood National and State Parks | LAGOON CREEK |
| 5 September 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Redwood National and State Parks | LAGOON CREEK #2 |
| 5 September 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Redwood National and State Parks | LABOR 2 |
| 4 September 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Redwood National and State Parks | LABOR1 |
| 3 September 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Redwood National and State Parks | MOON |
| 27 September 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | 60 acres | Redwood National and State Parks | REQUA |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Redwood Highway: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Gold | Occurrence | Placer |
Storms near this property
2 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Klamath, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 1 flood, 1 heavy rain. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2008 | Flood | Klamath | $7,000 | Heavy rain caused debris laden flow to block the culvert of a small stream near Klamath. The resultant flooding closed several roads in the area and inundated one commercial building. |
| March 2024 | Heavy Rain | Klamath | $3,500 | Slide is covering Klamath beach road, 1 mile south southeast of Klamath, CA.|LAT. 41.51N, LONG. -124.03W. |
Maps showing this location
10 surveysUnited States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
- 1929 USGS Crescent City quadrangle1:125000
- 1945 USGS Requa quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Eureka quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1952 USGS Klamath quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Crescent City quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Eureka quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Eureka quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1966 USGS Requa quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
- 1983 USGS Crescent City quadrangle1:100000
- 1997 USGS Requa quadrangle1:24000
Listed places nearby
1 within 8 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Radar Station B-71 | 6.0 miles | 1978 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 79000253 in Record Group 79. |
| Del Norte County | All 6 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.