A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1814. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1922.
From the record
“The Hotel Arcata is a National Historic Place and fully operational hotel located in Arcata, California. It was built to accommodate visitors to Arcata, California, drawn by the Humboldt State Normal School and delivered by the Northwestern Pacific Railroad.”
Wikipedia article Hotel Arcata, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 52 National Register listings published here for Humboldt County · listed in 1984 · category: Building · built in 1814, by W. H. Weeks · a National Historic Landmark.
National Register reference number.84000775- 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
1922 to 1987
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
65 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19221987
Fires near this property
256 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 256 fires within 5 miles of Hotel Arcata
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 353 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 17 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
130
Debris and open burning
45
Equipment and vehicle use
25
Arson/incendiarism
17
Recreation and ceremony
11
Smoking
10
Misuse of fire by a minor
7
Power generation/transmission/distribution
7
Natural
2
Other causes
2
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
7 September 2006
Arson/incendiarism
1.0 acres
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
7 September 2004
Smoking
under an acre
Humboldt-Del Norte Unit
ESSEX
6 September 2020
Power generation/transmission/distribution
under an acre
Humboldt-Del Norte Unit
UNION ST / SAMOA BLVD
6 September 2011
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Humboldt-Del Norte Unit
not named
6 September 2010
Arson/incendiarism
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
5 September 1996
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Humboldt-Del Norte Unit
FUSI
4 September 2018
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Northern California District
YOUNG
4 September 2016
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
2.6 acres
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
27 workings within 5 miles of Hotel Arcata: 16 producers, 5 occurrences, 4 prospects, 2 past producers.
16 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, Iron, 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Arcata, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 2 hail, 2 flood, 2 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.
Multiple roads around Humboldt Bay were closed due to flooding beginning December 15th in the morning. Roads gradually reopened through the early afternoon on December 16th as water receded. Roads closed included Hookton, Meridian, Port Kenyon, Coffee Creek, Pine Hill, Jackson Ranch, and Berta. Several other roads were also covered in water but remained open. Many of these roads typically flood during heavy rain events. Thus no damage was reported.
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.
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.
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.
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