Saint Sava Serbian Orthodox Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1889.

From the record

“The Saint Sava Serbian Orthodox Church is an Eastern Orthodox church located in Jackson, California. It is under jurisdiction of the Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Canada of the Serbian Orthodox Church and is dedicated to Saint Sava, the first Archbishop of the Serbian Orthodox Church.”
Wikipedia article Saint Sava Serbian Orthodox Church (Jackson, California), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Amador County · listed in 1986 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 724 N. Main, Jackson, 95642
When was it listed? March 1986
Category. building
Census division. Jackson
National Register reference number. 86000385 - 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

1889 to 1993

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 104 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Saint Sava Serbian Orthodox Church, surveyed 1993

Topographic sheet covering Saint Sava Serbian Orthodox Church, surveyed 1889

Fires near this property

286 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 286 fires within 5 miles of Saint Sava Serbian Orthodox Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 72,094 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 25 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	97
Equipment and vehicle use	87
Debris and open burning	51
Arson/incendiarism	25
Power generation/transmission/distribution	10
Smoking	5
Natural	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Other causes	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 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	70,868 acres	Amador-El Dorado Unit	BUTTE
9 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Amador-El Dorado Unit	PINE
8 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Amador-El Dorado Unit	SUNSET
7 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Amador-El Dorado Unit	SUNSET
7 September 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Amador-El Dorado Unit	CLINTON
5 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Amador-El Dorado Unit	BUTTE
30 September 2013	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Amador-El Dorado Unit	CREEK
30 September 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Amador-El Dorado Unit	RIDGE

Every fire recorded in Amador County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 317 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 317 workings within 5 miles of Saint Sava Serbian Orthodox Church: 134 occurrences, 80 past producers, 73 prospects, 15 producers. 16 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Allen Ranch	Gold, PGE, Silver	Past Producer
Anita	Gold, Copper, Iron	Past Producer	Gold, Iron
Ayers, Charlers	Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Gravel
Central Eureka	Gold, Silver, Iron, Zinc, Lead, Copper	Producer	1855
Digitalli	Cobalt, Copper, Manganese	Occurrence	Vein
Digitalli	Manganese	Unknown
Ellis	Chromium	Producer	Chromite
Ellis Property	Chromium, Iron	Prospect
G. J. Alexander	Stone, Dimension	Occurrence
Johnson Ranch	Copper, Gold, Silver	Occurrence	Underground

Every working recorded in Amador County

Storms near this property

3 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jackson, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1999 and 2022: 2 flood, 1 flash 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
December 2022	Flood	Jackson	$50,000	OES said the roadway flooded with cars getting stuck & 15 people needed help.
January 2017	Flood	Jackson	-	Flooding reported on Highway 49, along South Ave. in Jackson for backs of houses near creek, possible flooded basements. Jackson Creek and Sutter Creek rose over banks. Three bridges shut down in the area.
February 1999	Flash Flood	Jackson	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Amador County

Maps showing this location

14 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.

1889 USGS Jackson quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Jackson quadrangle1:125000
1897 USGS Jackson quadrangle1:125000
1902 USGS Jackson quadrangle1:125000 - 7 printings
1941 USGS Sutter Creek quadrangle1:62500
1944 USGS Sutter Creek quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1947 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1957 USGS Sutter Creek quadrangle1:62500
1962 USGS Jackson quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1962 USGS Sutter Creek quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1993 USGS San Andreas quadrangle1:100000

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Kennedy Tailing Wheels	0.3 miles	1981
William J. Paugh House	0.4 miles	2007
Jackson Downtown Historic District	0.5 miles	2000
Kennedy Mine Historic District	0.5 miles	2009
Grace Blair DePue House and Indian Museum	0.5 miles	1982
Amador County Hospital Building	0.5 miles	1972

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86000385 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Amador County	All 22 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.