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Photograph of Madison House
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Madison House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1912.

From the record

One of 42 National Register listings published here for Santa Cruz County · listed in 1984 · category: Building.

Sources: 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. 335 East Lake, Watsonville, 95076
  • When was it listed? February 1984
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Watsonville
  • Architect. W. H. Weeks
  • National Register reference number. 84001195 - 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

1912 to 1974

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 62 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Madison House, surveyed 1974
Topographic sheet covering Madison House, surveyed 1912

Fires near this property

473 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 473 fires within 5 miles of Madison House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,132 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 48 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/undetermined217
Equipment and vehicle use103
Debris and open burning56
Arson/incendiarism48
Misuse of fire by a minor23
Smoking8
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Recreation and ceremony6
Natural4

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 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionFREEDOM BL PAJARO_VALLEY
9 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionGREEN
9 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Mateo-Santa Cruz UnitVALLEY
9 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Mateo-Santa Cruz UnitSAN ANDREAS
9 September 1999Naturalunder an acreEllicott Slough National Wildlife RefugeCARSON
9 September 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Benito-Monterey UnitP.G.& E. #17
8 September 2013Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSan Mateo-Santa Cruz UnitTHURWACHTER
8 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreSan Mateo-Santa Cruz UnitPAULSEN

Every fire recorded in Santa Cruz County

Storms near this property

3 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Watsonville, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2001 and 2019: 2 hail, 1 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
November 2019FloodWatsonville-Hwy 152 at Holohan Rd eastbound lane under 1 foot of water.
September 2017HailWatsonville-Pea sized hail reported by spotter near Watsonville.
December 2001HailWatsonville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Santa Cruz County

Maps showing this location

12 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

6 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
Godfrey M. Bockius House0.2 miles1989
Judge Lee House0.3 miles1980
Watsonville City Plaza0.4 miles1983
Lettunich Building0.4 miles1992
Mansion House Hotel0.4 miles1983
Stoesser Block and Annex0.5 miles1983

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 84001195 in Record Group 79.
Santa Cruz CountyAll 42 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.
  • 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.