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One of 88 National Register listings published here for Napa County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Judge Augustus C. Palmer House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1927.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Palmer, Judge Augustus C., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 1300 Cedar St., Calistoga, 94515
- When was it listed? January 1979
- Category. building
- Census division. Calistoga
- Architectural style. Second Empire architecture in the United States and Canada
- National Register reference number. 79000504 - 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
1927 to 1997The ground this property stands on, surveyed 70 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
207 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 207 fires within 5 miles of Judge Augustus C. Palmer House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 104,823 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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 | 86 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 62 |
| Debris and open burning | 29 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 14 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | SPRING |
| 7 September 1992 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | CLOVER |
| 6 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | FRANZ |
| 6 September 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | SPRING WHITE 2 |
| 6 September 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | TOOHEY |
| 4 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | TOLL |
| 29 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | BENTLEY |
| 27 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 67,484 acres | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | GLASS |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 22 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Judge Augustus C. Palmer House: 8 occurrences, 6 past producers, 4 prospects, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Mercury, Clay, Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Calistoga | Geothermal | Unknown | ||
| Palisade Mine | Silver, Gold, Lead, Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Search Group | Copper | Occurrence | ||
| Silverado-Palisade Deposit | Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Arsenic, Antimony, Zinc, Mercury | Past Producer | 1858 | |
| Calistoga | Silver, Gold | Producer | ||
| Palisade | Silver, Gold, Lead, Copper, Mercury | Past Producer | ||
| Porter Creek Road | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Porter Creek Road | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Location | Silver | Unknown | ||
| Mark West Shale Quarry | Stone | Producer |
Storms near this property
3 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Calistoga, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1996 and 2017: 1 flood, 1 debris flow, 1 hail. The reports record 1 death. 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 1996 | Flood | Calistoga | 1 killed | no account filed |
| February 2017 | Debris Flow | Calistoga | - | Mud/rocks on Petrified Forest Rd/SR128. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Calistoga | - | no account filed |
Maps showing this location
13 surveysUnited 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.
- 1927 USGS Calistoga quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Calistoga quadrangle1:62500
- 1945 USGS Calistoga quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1947 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Calistoga quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
- 1958 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Calistoga quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Healdsburg quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
- 1993 USGS Calistoga quadrangle1:24000
- 1997 USGS Calistoga quadrangle1:24000
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | James H. Francis House | 0.1 miles | 1979 |
 | Napa Valley Railroad Depot | 0.2 miles | 1977 |
 | Mount View Hotel | 0.2 miles | 1982 |
 | Sam Brannan Cottage | 0.4 miles | 1983 |
 | Chateau Pacheteau | 1.0 miles | 2015 |
 | Garnett Creek Bridge on CA 29 | 1.2 miles | 2005 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 79000504 in Record Group 79. |
| Napa County | All 88 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.