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Photograph of John Ohm House
Photograph by Michael Aivaliotis, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

John Ohm House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1915.

From the record

“The John Ohm House is a house located at the site of San Joaquin City, 6 miles (9.7 km) southeast of Tracy, California. The large bungalow was built by John Ohm, a prominent rancher in the San Joaquin Valley, in 1908.”

Wikipedia article John Ohm House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 36 National Register listings published here for San Joaquin 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 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Ohm, John, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 31524 S. Kasson Rd., Tracy, 95304
  • When was it listed? February 1982
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Tracy
  • National Register reference number. 82002256 - 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.

Then and now

1915 to 1991

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 76 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering John Ohm House, surveyed 1991
Topographic sheet covering John Ohm House, surveyed 1915

Fires near this property

129 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 129 fires within 5 miles of John Ohm House between 1994 and 2020, burning about 624 acres in total. None started naturally. 15 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/undetermined71
Recreation and ceremony20
Arson/incendiarism15
Equipment and vehicle use13
Debris and open burning5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking1
Other causes1

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
9 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
9 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
28 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
27 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresSanta Clara Unitnot named
21 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
2 September 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresSan Joaquin River National Wildlife RefugeGARDNERS COVE #3
19 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
18 September 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSan Joaquin River National Wildlife RefugeBARREL

Every fire recorded in San Joaquin County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of John Ohm House: 1 occurrence, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gypsum-Anhydrite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Vernalis DepositGypsum-AnhydriteOccurrence
Kasson Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in San Joaquin County

Storms near this property

4 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tracy, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2005: 2 tornado, 1 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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
December 2005Tornado (F0)Tracy$20,000no account filed
March 1998Tornado (F0)Tracy$1,000no account filed
May 1998Funnel CloudTracy-no account filed
January 1997Flash FloodTracy-no account filed

Every storm recorded in San Joaquin 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 82002256 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
San Joaquin CountyAll 36 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.