Confidence Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1891.

From the record

“Confidence Hall is a historic Italianate Style, Victorian brick building in Placerville, El Dorado County, California. The building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on January 4, 1982.”
Wikipedia article Confidence Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 21 National Register listings published here for El Dorado County · listed in 1982 · 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 as contributing to the listing.
Address. 487 Main St., Placerville, 95667
When was it listed? January 1982
Category. building
Census division. Placerville
Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 82002174 - 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

935 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 935 fires within 5 miles of Confidence Hall between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,035 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 53 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	332
Equipment and vehicle use	225
Debris and open burning	209
Arson/incendiarism	53
Misuse of fire by a minor	48
Smoking	33
Power generation/transmission/distribution	14
Natural	9
Recreation and ceremony	9
Other causes	2
Fireworks	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 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Amador-El Dorado Unit	SERVICE
9 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Amador-El Dorado Unit	BOEGER WINERY PLACERVILLE
9 September 2015	Smoking	under an acre	Amador-El Dorado Unit	BEALS RD GOLD_HILL
9 September 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Amador-El Dorado Unit	LINDBERG
9 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Amador-El Dorado Unit	HY 50 EB / FORNI OFF RAM
9 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Central California District	UNNAMED FIRE 1707
9 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Central California District	UNNAMED FIRE 1971
9 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Amador-El Dorado Unit	GATLIN

Every fire recorded in El Dorado County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 642 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 642 workings within 5 miles of Confidence Hall: 331 occurrences, 178 unknowns, 120 past producers, 13 producers. 13 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Slate, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silver. 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
Cold Springs Sand and Gravel Co.	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown
Diamond Springs Li	Calcium	Unknown
Grand Victory	Gold, Antimony	Past Producer	Surface/Underground
Old Gravel Mine	Germanium	Unknown
Oregon	Gold, Arsenic, Lead	Occurrence
Pacific Quartz	Gold, Arsenic, Silver	Unknown
Placerite Quarry and Mill	Stone	Producer
Placerville District	Gold, Platinum	Past Producer	1848
Seven Bells	Copper, Gold	Occurrence	Vein
Unknown	Gemstone	Occurrence

Every working recorded in El Dorado County

Storms near this property

5 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Placerville, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2014 and 2023: 3 heavy rain, 2 flood. 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
March 2023	Flood	Placerville	-	The California Highway Patrol reported mud, dirt and rock along the southbound lane of State Highway 49 near the SR 193 junction.
December 2019	Heavy Rain	Placerville	-	A trained spotter reported widespread street flooding due to heavy rain. Spotter noted 0.61 inches of rain had fallen.
February 2017	Heavy Rain	Placerville	-	There were 1.80 of rain measured in Placerville, 24 hour total.
October 2016	Heavy Rain	Placerville	-	There were 4.00 inches of rainfall measured, 72 hour total.
December 2014	Flood	Placerville	-	Flooding in southbound Highway 49 just north of 193 in Placerville caused traffic to swerve into northbound lanes.

Every storm recorded in El Dorado County

Maps showing this location

11 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.

1891 USGS Placerville quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Placerville quadrangle1:125000
1893 USGS Placerville quadrangle1:125000 - 9 printings
1947 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS Placerville quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
1949 USGS Placerville quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1950 USGS Placerville quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1976 USGS Placerville quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
United States Post Office-Main Street Branch	under 500 feet	2025
Fountain-Tallman Soda Works	under 500 feet	1984
John Pearson Soda Works	0.2 miles	1985
Episcopal Church of Our Saviour	0.2 miles	1977
Combellack-Blair House	0.3 miles	1985
Hattie (Gold Bug), Priest and Silver Pine Mines and Stampmill	1.0 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82002174 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
El Dorado County	All 21 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.