BlockFrom the record
One of 42 National Register listings published here for Mendocino County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
O. W. Getchell House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1943.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 4 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Getchell, O. W., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. CA 1, Anchor Bay, 95445
- When was it listed? October 1980
- Category. building
- Census division. Point Arena
- National Register reference number. 80000819 - 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
1943 to 1998The ground this property stands on, surveyed 55 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
125 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 125 fires within 5 miles of O. W. Getchell House between 1992 and 2019, burning about 126 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 | 52 |
| Debris and open burning | 29 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 20 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 7 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 6 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Mendocino Unit | GREEN |
| 4 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.1 acres | Mendocino Unit | RIVER 4 |
| 30 September 1999 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.0 acres | Northern California District | WHALE |
| 3 September 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | MOONRISE DR GUALALA |
| 25 September 2009 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Mendocino Unit | FISH |
| 24 September 2014 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Mendocino Unit | HAVENS |
| 23 September 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Mendocino Unit | CHEWNING |
| 21 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | TREATMENT |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of O. W. Getchell House: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gualala Aggregates | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Maps showing this location
11 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.
- 1943 USGS Point Arena quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1947 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Gualala quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Point Arena quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
- 1977 USGS Gualala quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Point Arena quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
- 1998 USGS Gualala quadrangle1:24000
Listed places nearby
1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Milano Hotel | 2.0 miles | 1978 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 80000819 in Record Group 79. |
| Mendocino County | All 42 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.