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Photograph of Pierce Point Ranch
Photograph by Frank Schulenburg, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Pierce Ranch

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1916.

From the record

One of 50 National Register listings published here for Marin County · listed in 1985 · category: District.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Address. Point Reyes National Seashore, Inverness, 94937
  • When was it listed? December 1985
  • Category. district
  • Census division. Northwest Marin
  • National Register reference number. 85003324 - 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

1916 to 1995

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Pierce Ranch, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet covering Pierce Ranch, surveyed 1916

Fires near this property

12 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Pierce Ranch between 1996 and 2020, burning about 11 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
29 September 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreShasta-Trinity UnitTUCKER
11 September 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acrePoint Reyes National SeashorePIERCE
23 August 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acrePoint Reyes National SeashoreCYPRUS
20 August 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePoint Reyes National SeashoreHUT
7 July 2016Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresPoint Reyes National SeashorePELICAN
6 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.1 acresPoint Reyes National SeashorePIERCE
31 July 2013Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMarin County Fire Departmentnot named
16 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMarin County Fire Departmentnot named

Every fire recorded in Marin County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Pierce Ranch: 3 occurrences, 3 prospects, 1 unknown, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gold, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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
UnknownStone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, GeneralOccurrenceLimestone
Unnamed QuarryLimestone, General, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Tomales PointGoldOccurrenceBeach Placer
Tomales PointGoldUnknown
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Dillon Beach PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect

Every working recorded in Marin County

Storms near this property

3 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Inverness, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports in 2019: 3 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
February 2019FloodInverness-Roadway flooding Sr Francis Drake Blvd and Mount Vision Fire Rd.
February 2019FloodInverness-Sir Francis Drake Blvd by Vision Rd is flooded and currently impassable, Pierce Point Rd by Keohe Beach Trailhead is also flooded.
February 2019FloodInverness-Roads between Inverness and Point Reyes are closed due to flooding.

Every storm recorded in Marin County

Maps showing this location

12 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

Listed places nearby

5 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 85003324 in Record Group 79.
Marin CountyAll 50 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.