Coulterville Main Street Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.

From the record

One of 44 National Register listings published here for Mariposa County · listed in 1982 · category: District.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 24 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Main St., Coulterville, 95311
When was it listed? March 1982
Category. district
Census division. Coulterville
National Register reference number. 82002205 - 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

159 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 159 fires within 5 miles of Coulterville Main Street Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 16,911 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 22 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	53
Debris and open burning	34
Equipment and vehicle use	30
Arson/incendiarism	22
Natural	5
Smoking	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Firearms and explosives use	1
Other causes	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 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	DONKEY
9 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	Merced-Mariposa Unit	PENON BLANCO LOOKOUT
9 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	Central California District	BONEYARD
7 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Merced-Mariposa Unit	HILDAGO
6 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	165 acres	Central California District	HORSESHOE
5 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	BROADWAY COULTERVILLE
4 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	FISKE
26 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	ERNST

Every fire recorded in Mariposa County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 225 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 225 workings within 5 miles of Coulterville Main Street Historic District: 72 past producers, 70 occurrences, 43 unknowns, 23 producers. 23 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Manganese, 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
Adelaide and Anderson	Gold, Lead, Copper	Past Producer	1867
Asbestos Prospect	Asbestos	Occurrence
Barrett	Copper, Gold, Zinc	Occurrence
Champion I	Gold, Silver, Zinc, Lead, Copper	Past Producer	1855
Crystal	Gold, Mercury, Copper	Past Producer	Cinnabar, Gold
Jasper Point	Gemstone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Gravel, Jasper, Sand
Jasper Point	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Malvina	Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper	Past Producer	Gold
Mary Harrison-Malvina Group	Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead	Past Producer	1852
Red Hill Mine	Gold, Copper	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Mariposa County

Storms near this property

6 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coulterville, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1999 and 2023: 1 lightning, 1 wildfire, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. The reports record 2 deaths. 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 2018	Flash Flood	Coulterville	2 killed, $2,000,000	Mariposa Office of Emergency Services reported several homes flooded and roadways washed out. While many roadways were washed out across Northwestern Mariposa County, the homes were generally impacted near Lake Don Pedro, Hornitos, and the City of Mariposa. The two fatalities that did occur in the area were both related to a person driving into a flooded roadway. One was along highway 132 west of Coulterville and the other was near Cathey's Valley where a 72 year old woman was found dead nearly four months later.
August 2001	Wildfire	Coulterville	$3,600,000	The Creek Fire was an arson fire that burned 11,500 acres. There were no fatalities but 11 injuries and 8 structures were lost (4 residences and 4 out-buildings). At one point at least 400 people were forced to evacuate due to the fire and it threatened at least 3000 structures.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Coulterville	-	The PG&E station at Penon Blanco reported a measured wind gust of 62 mph with a thunderstorm.
October 2021	Heavy Rain	Coulterville	-	Public report of 5.48 inches of rainfall in 18 hours at Greeley Hill.
March 2017	Hail	Coulterville	-	Public report of one inch hail.
September 1999	Lightning	Coulterville	-	Four (4) lightning strikes were observed by an OES Fire Official in the vicinity of Coulterville. The strikes all produced small fires. No injuries or damage was reported except for the costs of suppression.

Every storm recorded in Mariposa County

Maps showing this location

13 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.

1893 USGS Sonora quadrangle1:125000
1896 USGS Sonora quadrangle1:125000
1897 USGS Sonora quadrangle1:125000 - 8 printings
1898 USGS Sonora quadrangle1:125000
1947 USGS Coulterville quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1947 USGS Coulterville quadrangle1:24000 - 6 printings
1947 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS Coulterville quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1966 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:250000
1994 USGS Oakdale quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
2001 USGS Coulterville quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82002205 in Record Group 79.
Mariposa County	All 44 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.