Built in 1925 (bungalow). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1891.
From the record
“The Slocum House located in Fair Oaks, California, is a historic building designed and built by Arthur Broadley in 1924 in the California bungalow architectural style for Charles Henry and Sara Ann Slocum.”
Wikipedia article Slocum House (Fair Oaks, California), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 106 National Register listings published here for Sacramento County · listed in 1979 · category: Building · built in 1925, bungalow.
National Register reference number.79000520- 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
502 since 1993
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 502 fires within 5 miles of Slocum House
between 1993 and 2020, burning about 268 acres in total. None started naturally. 27 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
397
Equipment and vehicle use
29
Arson/incendiarism
27
Misuse of fire by a minor
20
Smoking
18
Debris and open burning
9
Power generation/transmission/distribution
2
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 2008
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
8 September 2019
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Amador-El Dorado Unit
not named
7 September 2009
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
6 September 2010
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
6 September 2009
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
5 September 2009
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
4 September 2011
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Amador-El Dorado Unit
not named
3 September 2009
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
31 workings within 5 miles of Slocum House: 13 past producers, 11 producers, 6 occurrences, 1 unknown.
11 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Platinum, Silver, Iridium, Osmium, Platinum. 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
Fair Oaks, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2020 and 2026: 6 flood.
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.
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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