Bowerman Barn

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1890.

From the record

“The Bowerman Barn is a historic barn located on Guy Covington Drive southwest of Trinity Center, California. The barn was built in 1878 by Jacob Bowerman, a local cattle rancher.”
Wikipedia article Bowerman Barn, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Trinity County · listed in 1981 · category: Building.

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 1 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. SW of Trinity Center on Guy Covington Dr., Trinity Center, 96091
When was it listed? March 1981
Category. building
Census division. Weaverville
National Register reference number. 81000181 - 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

77 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Bowerman Barn between 1992 and 2020, burning about 47 acres in total. 36 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
Natural	36
Debris and open burning	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Recreation and ceremony	8
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Smoking	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Fireworks	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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	Natural	under an acre	Shasta-Trinity National Forest	NORWEGIAN
8 September 2017	Natural	under an acre	Shasta-Trinity National Forest	GRANITE
7 September 2017	Natural	under an acre	Shasta-Trinity National Forest	BOWERMAN
5 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Shasta-Trinity National Forest	HOBEL
5 September 2004	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Shasta-Trinity National Forest	STUMP
30 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Shasta-Trinity National Forest	GRANITE
30 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Shasta-Trinity National Forest	not named
28 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Shasta-Trinity National Forest	not named

Every fire recorded in Trinity County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 48 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 48 workings within 5 miles of Bowerman Barn: 24 unknowns, 11 past producers, 7 occurrences, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Chromium, Silver, Nickel. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Jack Rabbit Flat Quarry	Volcanic Materials, Pumice	Producer
Unnamed	Mica	Occurrence
E. Fork of Stuart	PGE	Unknown
E. Fork of Stuart Fork River	Nickel	Occurrence
Kizer	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Minersville	PGE	Unknown
Minersville	Gold, Platinum	Producer	Stream Placer
Minersville Area	Nickel	Occurrence
Mittry & Sons	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Rover Placer	Gold, Platinum	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Trinity County

Storms near this property

4 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Trinity Center, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 2 hail, 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2025	Hail	Trinity Center	-	Report of half-inch to one-inch sized hail near Trinity Lake.
April 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Trinity Center	-	no account filed
March 1998	Flood	Trinity Center	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Trinity Center	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Trinity County

Maps showing this location

10 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.

1890 USGS Red Bluff quadrangle1:250000
1894 USGS Red Bluff quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
1913 USGS Weaverville quadrangle1:125000 - 6 printings
1950 USGS Minersville quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Trinity Dam quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1950 USGS Trinity Lake quadrangle1:62500
1958 USGS Redding quadrangle1:250000 - 5 printings
1982 USGS Covington Mill quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Redding quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1998 USGS Covington Mill quadrangle1:24000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 81000181 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Trinity County	All 4 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.