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One of 160 National Register listings published here for Alameda County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Ravenswood
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1906.
The listing
- Address. S of Livermore on Arroyo Rd., Livermore, 94550
- When was it listed? June 1979
- Category. building
- Census division. Livermore-Pleasanton
- Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
- National Register reference number. 79000466 - 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
339 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 339 fires within 5 miles of Ravenswood between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,689 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 34 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 | 203 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 70 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 34 |
| Smoking | 18 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Santa Clara Unit | not named |
| 9 September 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Santa Clara Unit | CALTRANS |
| 8 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Santa Clara Unit | not named |
| 8 September 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 8 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Santa Clara Unit | BMW |
| 7 September 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 7 September 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 7 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Santa Clara Unit | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 20 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Ravenswood: 12 past producers, 7 producers, 1 occurrence. 7 still produce. 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Location | Clay | Occurrence | ||
| Buranis Bros. & Co. | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Buranis Bros. & Co. | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Central Maintenance Heavy Equip Shp | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pits | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| H.J. Kaiser Co. Radum Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| H.J. Kaiser Co. Radum Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this property
6 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Livermore, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 2 flood, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood, 1 debris flow. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 1998 | Flash Flood | Livermore | $250,000 | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Tornado (F0) | Livermore | $50,000 | A small tornado skipped across a residential housing development causing minor damage to houses. A number of trees were toppled. |
| November 2024 | Heavy Rain | Livermore | - | The Livermore COOP station recorded a new daily record rainfall of 0.67 inches for November 22. |
| February 2019 | Flood | Livermore | - | Flooding with road corrosion at Marina Ave and Arroyo Rd. |
| February 2017 | Debris Flow | Livermore | - | Slide blocking at least one lane EB 84 just west of Vallecitos. |
| December 2014 | Flood | Livermore | - | Flooding blocked two right lanes of Westbound Interstate 580 before North Livermore Avenue. |
Maps showing this location
12 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.
- 1906 USGS Pleasanton quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
- 1941 USGS Pleasanton quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Pleasanton quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Livermore quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Livermore quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Livermore quadrangle1:24000 - 6 printings
- 1961 USGS Livermore quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1962 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
- 1966 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:250000
- 1989 USGS Stockton quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
Listed places nearby
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Livermore Veterans Administration Hospital, Building 62 | 1.9 miles | 2020 | |
 | Livermore Carnegie Library and Park | 1.9 miles | 2011 |
 | D. J. Murphy House | 2.1 miles | 1978 |
 | Bank of Italy | 2.1 miles | 1978 |
 | Hagemann Ranch Historic District | 2.5 miles | 2008 |
 | John W. Kottinger Adobe Barn | 5.6 miles | 1985 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 79000466 in Record Group 79. |
| Alameda County | All 160 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.