Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1922.
From the record
“The Carnegie Free Library in Eureka, California was built in Classical Revival Style in 1902. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986, and currently houses the Morris Graves Museum of Art.”
Wikipedia article Carnegie Free Library (Eureka, California), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 52 National Register listings published here for Humboldt County · listed in 1986 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.86000101- 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
99 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 99 fires within 5 miles of Carnegie Free Library
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 318 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 14 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
39
Debris and open burning
15
Recreation and ceremony
14
Arson/incendiarism
14
Equipment and vehicle use
12
Misuse of fire by a minor
3
Smoking
1
Natural
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
8 September 2010
Misuse of fire by a minor
205 acres
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
8 September 2008
Equipment and vehicle use
1.5 acres
Humboldt-Del Norte Unit
GILL
7 September 2015
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Humboldt-Del Norte Unit
ELK
7 September 2006
Arson/incendiarism
1.0 acres
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
12 workings within 5 miles of Carnegie Free Library: 4 occurrences, 4 prospects, 2 past producers, 2 producers.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Eureka, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 5 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 1 tornado.
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.
A waterspout over Humboldt Bay moved inland across Woodley Island. A boat anemometer measured a wind speed of 54 mph associated with the brief tornado. In addition, a fiber glass case snapped on a dock. The path length was estimated to be 200 feet, and the width was approximately 30 yards.
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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