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One of 160 National Register listings published here for Alameda County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
North Gate Hall
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. 17 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Oxford St., Berkeley, 94709
- When was it listed? March 1982
- Category. building
- Also known as. Berkeley, University of California MRA
- Census division. Berkeley
- Architect. John Galen Howard
- National Register reference number. 82004648 - 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
1895 to 1993The ground this property stands on, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Fires near this property
200 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 200 fires within 5 miles of North Gate Hall between 1992 and 2020, burning about 386 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 13 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 | 138 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 17 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 13 |
| Smoking | 10 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 9 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 6 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 6 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 5 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 5 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 5 September 1994 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Santa Clara Unit | ANZA |
| 5 September 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Santa Clara Unit | HALLOCK |
| 3 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 33 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 33 workings within 5 miles of North Gate Hall: 13 occurrences, 9 past producers, 4 producers, 4 unknowns. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Mercury, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Hills | Sulfur-Pyrite, Copper, Lead | Past Producer | Galena, Pyrite | |
| Kaiser Industries Corp | Clay | Producer | ||
| Unnamed Location | Calcium | Prospect | ||
| Tunnel Rock | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Tunnel Rock | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Location | Asbestos | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Location | Asbestos | Occurrence | ||
| Berkeley Hills | Lead | Unknown | ||
| Unnamed Location | Lead | Occurrence | ||
| Ada Sand and Gravel Pit No 2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this property
6 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Berkeley, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 4 hail, 1 flash flood, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2017 | Hail | Berkeley | $10 | Pea sized hail reported by spotter. Several other reports of pea sized hail also. |
| December 2022 | Heavy Rain | Berkeley | - | Trained spotter reported 4.45 inches of rain from 5 PM on December 30 to 5 PM on December 31. |
| March 2018 | Hail | Berkeley | - | Pea-sized hail reported in north Berkeley via social media. |
| March 2018 | Hail | Berkeley | - | Social media reports of another round of hail this morning in Berkeley. |
| April 2018 | Hail | Berkeley | - | Small hail reported in Berkeley. |
| January 1998 | Flash Flood | Berkeley | - | basement flooded |
Maps showing this location
17 surveysUnited 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.
- 1895 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:62500
- 1899 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
- 1915 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
- 1947 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Oakland West quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1955 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
- 1957 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Oakland West quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
- 1960 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
- 1985 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1993 USGS Oakland West quadrangle1:24000
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Drawing Building | under 500 feet | 1976 |
 | Cloyne Court Hotel | under 500 feet | 1992 |
 | Haviland Hall | 0.1 miles | 1982 |
| Hearst Memorial Mining Building | 0.1 miles | 1982 | |
| University House | 0.1 miles | 1982 | |
 | Giannini Hall | 0.2 miles | 1982 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 82004648 in Record Group 79. |
| Alameda County | All 160 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.