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Photograph of James H. and Frances E. Laughlin House
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James H. and Frances E. Laughlin House

Built in 1876 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1920.

From the record

“Laughlin House, in Sonoma County, California, near Windsor, was built around 1876. The listing includes four contributing buildings and a contributing structure.”

Wikipedia article James H. and Frances E. Laughlin House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 73 National Register listings published here for Sonoma County · listed in 1979 · category: Building · built in 1876, Greek Revival architecture.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 4 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Laughlin, James H. and Frances E., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. SE of Windsor on Lone Redwood Rd., Windsor, 95403
  • When was it listed? April 1979
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Santa Rosa
  • When was it built? 1876
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture, Italianate architecture
  • National Register reference number. 79000563 - 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

330 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 330 fires within 5 miles of James H. and Frances E. Laughlin House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 427 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 22 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/undetermined169
Equipment and vehicle use68
Smoking31
Arson/incendiarism22
Debris and open burning17
Misuse of fire by a minor15
Natural4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1
Other causes1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresSonoma-Lake Napa Unitnot named
7 September 2000Smokingunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitNEWMAN
7 September 1992Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitEASTSIDE
7 September 1992Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitLOCH HAVEN
6 September 2005Arson/incendiarism3.1 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
6 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named

Every fire recorded in Sonoma County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of James H. and Frances E. Laughlin House: 10 producers, 5 unknowns, 4 past producers, 3 occurrences. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Manganese, Diatomite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
DreamlandMercuryProducer
Unnamed ProspectGoldOccurrence
Dreamland MineManganeseProducer
Dreamland MineManganesePast Producer1918
Goodman Bros. DepositDiatomiteProducerSedimentary
Goodman Bros. DepositDiatomitePast Producer
Brooks QuarryStoneProducer
O ConnorStoneProducer
O ConnorStonePast Producer
Unnamed LocationStoneOccurrence

Every working recorded in Sonoma County

Storms near this property

6 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Windsor, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2014 and 2024: 5 flood, 1 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 2024FloodWindsor$10The Arata Lane offramp from US Highway 101 Northbound was closed due to standing water on the roadway.
February 2019FloodWindsor-Flooding across both off ramp lanes of US 101N at Arata.
January 2017FloodWindsor-Widespread flooded roadways at Arata and Los Amigos.
January 2017FloodWindsor-Roadway flooding. Eastside Road and Windsor River Road. Approximately 18 inches of water across lanes.
December 2014FloodWindsor-Northbound US-101 flooded across all lanes, north of Arata Lane.
February 2019HailWindsor-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sonoma County

Maps showing this location

12 surveys

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.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Cunningham-Hembree Estate3.1 miles2018
Walters Ranch4.9 miles1977
Wasserman House5.7 miles1979
Comstock House5.8 miles2012
W. H. Lumsden House5.9 miles1983
De Turk Round Barn5.9 miles2004

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 79000563 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sonoma CountyAll 73 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.