Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1913.
From the record
“The Elks Building in Stockton, California is a 5-story U-shaped Chicago style/Commercial Style building built during 1906-08. Located at the corner of Sutter and Weber Streets, it has a copper cornice over those two streets.”
Wikipedia article Elks Building (Stockton, California), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 36 National Register listings published here for San Joaquin County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.80004606- 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
882 since 1999
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 882 fires within 5 miles of Elks Building
between 1999 and 2019, burning about 529 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
792
Arson/incendiarism
27
Equipment and vehicle use
21
Smoking
17
Misuse of fire by a minor
12
Debris and open burning
8
Power generation/transmission/distribution
4
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 2019
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Tuolumne-Calaveras Unit
not named
9 September 2009
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
9 September 2007
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
8 September 2019
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
2.0 acres
Tuolumne-Calaveras Unit
not named
8 September 2018
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
8 September 2018
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
8 September 2016
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
7 September 2010
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
2 workings within 5 miles of Elks Building: 2 unknowns.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Stockton, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 4 flood, 2 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud.
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.
There were numerous reports of roadway flooding in Stockton due to heavy rain and large amounts of small accumulating hail on May 19th. Law enforcement reported March Lane and Quail Lakes being shut down along with Hammer Lane between Lorraine Ave and Girardi Way due to flooding.
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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