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One of 19 National Register listings published here for Siskiyou County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Lewis Falkenstein House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1886.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Falkenstein, Lewis, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 401 S. Gold Street, Yreka, 96097
- When was it listed? December 1979
- Category. building
- Census division. Yreka
- National Register reference number. 79000554 - 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
1886 to 1948The ground this property stands on, surveyed 62 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
322 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 322 fires within 5 miles of Lewis Falkenstein House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,067 acres in total. 103 started naturally. 12 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 | 105 |
| Natural | 103 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 47 |
| Debris and open burning | 36 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 12 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 10 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 | 36 acres | Siskiyou Unit | CCG OOK AND GREEN CAMPGRO |
| 9 September 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Siskiyou Unit | EASTMAN |
| 8 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Siskiyou Unit | MOTEL 6 YREKA |
| 8 September 2004 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Siskiyou Unit | RIDGE |
| 7 September 2017 | Natural | 3.6 acres | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | MARLOW |
| 7 September 2017 | Natural | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | MCKINLEY |
| 7 September 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Northern California District | SKU CANAL |
| 7 September 2004 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Siskiyou Unit | DELPHIC |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 123 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 123 workings within 5 miles of Lewis Falkenstein House: 65 past producers, 27 unknowns, 17 occurrences, 14 producers. 14 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Chromium. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cady Prospect | Asbestos | Occurrence | ||
| G B Russell | Flagstone, Stone | Occurrence | ||
| Jeff Gatewood | Clay | Occurrence | ||
| Oberlin Hill | Stone, Crushed/Broken, Granite | Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Osgood | Gold, Zinc, Lead | Past Producer | ||
| Souza Ranch | Tungsten, Copper, Gold, Zinc | Occurrence | ||
| Siskiyou No 431 Pioneer Port Crush. | Stone | Producer | ||
| Long Gulch | Gold, Lead | Past Producer | ||
| Rainbow | Gold, Lead | Past Producer | ||
| Rainbow Mine | Gold, Lead | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
6 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yreka, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2015: 2 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2015 | Debris Flow | Yreka | - | California Highway Patrol reported a Mud/Dirt/Rock slide across California Highway 3 at Forest Mountain Summit between Yreka and Fort Jones. |
| May 2005 | Hail | Yreka | - | A spotter 1N Yreka reported 0.75 inch hail with a thunderstorm. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Yreka | - | See below. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Yreka | - | See below. |
| July 2001 | Flash Flood | Yreka | - | See below. |
| June 1998 | Flash Flood | Yreka | - | no account filed |
Maps showing this location
14 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.
- 1886 USGS Shasta quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1894 USGS Shasta quadrangle1:250000 - 8 printings
- 1922 USGS Shasta Valley Sheet No 3 quadrangle1:24000
- 1932 USGS Yreka quadrangle1:96000
- 1939 USGS Yreka quadrangle1:125000 - 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Weed quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Weed quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Yreka quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Weed quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1963 USGS Weed quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Yreka NW quadrangle1:24000
- 1979 USGS Yreka quadrangle1:100000
- 1984 USGS Yreka quadrangle1:24000
- 2001 USGS Yreka quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
Listed places nearby
3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Yreka Carnegie Library | 0.3 miles | 1992 |
 | West Miner Street-Third Street Historic District | 0.4 miles | 1972 |
 | Forest House | 4.5 miles | 2011 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 79000554 in Record Group 79. |
| Siskiyou County | All 19 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.