Orosi Branch Library

Built in 1921. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1922.

From the record

“The Orosi Branch Library, also known as the Orosi/Cutler Branch Library, is a Carnegie library located at 12662 Ave. 416 in Orosi, California. The library was built in 1921 with a $3000 grant from the Carnegie Foundation; while the foundation had issued the grant in 1917, construction was held up for four years by World War I.”
Wikipedia article Orosi Branch Library, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 35 National Register listings published here for Tulare County · listed in 1983 · category: Building · built in 1921.

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. 12662 Ave. 416, Orosi, 93647
When was it listed? August 1983
Category. building
Census division. Orosi-Cutler
When was it built? 1921
National Register reference number. 83001247 - 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

417 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 417 fires within 5 miles of Orosi Branch Library between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,453 acres in total. None started naturally. 188 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
Arson/incendiarism	188
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	117
Equipment and vehicle use	50
Misuse of fire by a minor	27
Debris and open burning	24
Smoking	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Firearms and explosives use	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	Tulare Unit	SULTANA
9 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Tulare Unit	MASSIE
9 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Tulare Unit	ALTA#5
9 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Tulare Unit	HUERTA
8 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Tulare Unit	CHURCH
8 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Tulare Unit	EAST
8 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	8.0 acres	Tulare Unit	PINKERTON
7 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Tulare Unit	OLYMPIC

Every fire recorded in Tulare County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Orosi Branch Library: 3 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Magnesite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite, Uranium. 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
Bezzarides	Uranium	Prospect
Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Dickey	Granite	Past Producer
Dinuba Magnesite Co.	Magnesite	Past Producer
Ledbetter Borrow Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Tulare County

Storms near this property

11 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Orosi, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 2006 and 2024: 9 flood, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Orosi	$1,500,000	NWS officials toured damage around the town of Orosi in Tulare County. Extensive wind damage from thunderstorm outflow in the town was evident. Several homes exhibited minor roof damage. Fences and trees were damaged or downed. Property damages were estimated. NWS concluded that a gust front tornado, commonly called a gustnado, occurred in this location, based on damage pattern as well as patterns indicated in tall dry grass and tree trunks and tops, and eyewitness accounts. Gust front tornadoes can occur in the outflow of a severe thunderstorm and are not considered to be true tornadoes. Winds were estimated at 60 mph.
April 2006	Flood	Orosi	$100,000	no account filed
September 2007	Flash Flood	Orosi	$5,000	A trained storm spotter noted debris of leaves, small trees and branches from flash flooding. The location was just east of Orange Cove on Sand Creek Rd.
November 2024	Flood	Orosi	-	California Highway Patrol reported roadway flooding on Ave. 413 near SR 63 in Orosi.
January 2023	Flood	Orosi	-	Public report of large rocks in the roadway on Boyd Dr. east of Orosi.
January 2023	Flood	Orosi	-	Public report of flooding at the intersection of Ave. 416 and Rd. 127 in Orosi.
January 2023	Flood	Orosi	-	Public report of a downed power pole into a saturated ground near the intersection of Ave. 432 and Rd. 140.
January 2023	Flood	Orosi	-	Public report of a lot of debris backing up and covering the roadway at the intersection of SR 63 and Ave. 412 in Orosi.
January 2023	Flood	Orosi	-	California Highway Patrol reported roadway flooding on Rd. 142 near Orosi.
March 2023	Flood	Orosi	-	California Highway Patrol reported flooding on Ave 416 a half mile west of Rd. 168.
March 2023	Flood	Orosi	-	California Highway Patrol reported water a foot deep on Rd. 144 at Ave. 142.

Every storm recorded in Tulare 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.

1922 USGS Trimmer quadrangle1:96000
1923 USGS Sultana quadrangle1:31680
1924 USGS Dinuba quadrangle1:125000 - 5 printings
1948 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Orange Cove South quadrangle1:24000
1955 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1966 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Orange Cove South quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1982 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Sequoia Field- Visalia-Dinuba School of Aeronautics	7.0 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83001247 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Tulare County	All 35 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.