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Photograph of Santa Fe Passenger and Freight Depot
Photograph by Bobak Ha'Eri, CC BY 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Santa Fe Passenger and Freight Depot

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1930.

From the record

“The Santa Fe Passenger and Freight Depot is a former Santa Fe Railroad station located at 150 Central Valley Highway in Shafter, in the southern San Joaquin Valley within Kern County, California.”

Wikipedia article Shafter station (Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 23 National Register listings published here for Kern 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 Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 150 Central Valley Hwy., Shafter, 93263
  • When was it listed? January 1982
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Shafter
  • National Register reference number. 82002187 - 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

54 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Santa Fe Passenger and Freight Depot between 2005 and 2020, burning about 23 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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/undetermined39
Arson/incendiarism7
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1
Debris and open burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
30 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
3 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
21 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
2 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
16 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
10 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
6 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
2 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named

Every fire recorded in Kern County

Storms near this property

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shafter, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2016: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2016Heavy RainShafter-Reports of nuisance flooding and street ponding were submitted via Facebook of flooding in Shafter California in Kern County at approximately 2020 PST.

Every storm recorded in Kern 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.

Listed places nearby

3 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Green Hotel0.6 miles1989
Shafter Research Station1.8 miles1997
Wasco Union High School Auditorium7.3 miles1997

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 82002187 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kern CountyAll 23 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.
  • 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.