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Photograph of Community Church of Gonzales
Photograph by McGhiever, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Community Church of Gonzales

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1910.

From the record

“Community Church of Gonzales is a historic Gothic Revival church building at 301 4th Street in Gonzales, California, United States. It was built 1883-1884 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.”

Wikipedia article Community Church of Gonzales, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 64 National Register listings published here for Monterey County · listed in 1983 · 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. 301 4th St., Gonzales, 93926
  • When was it listed? September 1983
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Gonzales
  • Architectural style. Gothic Revival
  • National Register reference number. 83001210 - 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

1910 to 1948

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 38 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Community Church of Gonzales, surveyed 1948
Topographic sheet covering Community Church of Gonzales, surveyed 1910

Fires near this property

53 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Community Church of Gonzales between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,234 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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
Equipment and vehicle use19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1

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
4 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use1,393 acresSan Benito-Monterey UnitCABEU003316
15 September 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Benito-Monterey UnitJOHNSON
11 September 2017Natural4.2 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionJOHNSON
11 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Benito-Monterey UnitJOHNSON
6 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined63 acresSan Benito-Monterey UnitIVERSON
28 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresSan Benito-Monterey UnitMCCOY RD SOLEDAD
28 August 2007Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSan Benito-Monterey UnitJOHNSON CANYON RD / IVERS
28 August 1993Equipment and vehicle use7.0 acresSan Benito-Monterey UnitPG&E # 20

Every fire recorded in Monterey County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Community Church of Gonzales: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
JohnsonStoneProducer
JohnsonStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Monterey County

Storms near this property

2 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gonzales, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2019 and 2021: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 2021FloodGonzales-Roadway flooding at US-101 N and Gloria Rd.
December 2019FloodGonzales-Gonzales Fire reporting 4-5 cars stuck in 3-4 feet of water on US 101-N and Gloria Rd.

Every storm recorded in Monterey 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.

Listed places nearby

1 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
Gabilan Lodge No. 372-Independent Order of Odd Fellows0.1 miles1986

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 83001210 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Monterey CountyAll 64 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.