Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1910.
From the record
“The Fort is a government building located at the intersection of Ash and Lincoln Sts. in Taft, California. The building is a replica of Sutter's Fort in Sacramento.”
Wikipedia article The Fort (Taft, California), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 23 National Register listings published here for Kern County · listed in 1981 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.81000151- 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
404 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 404 fires within 5 miles of Fort, The
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 11,716 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 25 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
182
Power generation/transmission/distribution
81
Equipment and vehicle use
57
Misuse of fire by a minor
31
Arson/incendiarism
25
Natural
13
Debris and open burning
6
Smoking
5
Recreation and ceremony
2
Fireworks
1
Firearms and explosives use
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
8 September 1999
Power generation/transmission/distribution
under an acre
Central California District
UNNAMED FIRE 0617
7 September 2020
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Kern County Fire Department
ELK HILLS
7 September 1998
Power generation/transmission/distribution
15 acres
Central California District
UNNAMED FIRE 0546
6 September 2006
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
13 workings within 5 miles of Fort, The: 8 past producers, 3 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Uranium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Fullers Earth. 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
Taft, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2019: 4 flood, 1 wildfire, 1 lightning, 1 heavy rain.
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.
Heavy rain caused widespread urban and poor drainage flooding on the morning of the 29th across much of the San Joaquin Valley. Especially hard hit were the metro areas of Fresno, Visalia, and Bakersfield, and the adjacent foothills.
Numerous power pole and grass fires were touched off by lightning strikes in the Southwest San Joaquin Valley from Taft northward to Fellows during the wee hours of the morning of the 30th. Over 8000 utility customers lost power during the thunderstorm/lightning episode in the Kern County area, including 4000 customers on the West Side of the South Valley.
An evening deluge brought substantial sheet flow through the City of Taft resulting in basement flooding of one home and other minor flooding problems.
Rainfall of 0.49 inches fell at the APRS station in Taft. The rain contributed to the development of a sinkhole that was 200 feet long, 1 to 2 feet wide, and 1 to 4 feet deep. Five homes were evacuated as a precaution, but no damage was reported to any buildings or utilities.
Approximately 1.5 inches of rainfall fell over the cities of Taft and Maricopa in 30 minutes or so. This resulted in some flooding of an apartment complex in the city of Taft as well as a vehicles being stranded on flooded roadways. Also, SR 166 was closed around 7 PM due to flooding.
Heavy rain occurred in the town of Taft, where 1.71 inches of rain was measured by both the Taft cooperative observer and a mesonet station near Tehachapi.
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.
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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