Morse-Skinner Ranch House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1894.

From the record

One of 36 National Register listings published here for San Joaquin County · listed in 1986 · 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, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Morse--Skinner Ranch House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 13063 N. CA 99, Lodi, 95240
When was it listed? August 1986
Category. building
Census division. Lodi
National Register reference number. 86001878 - 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.

Fires near this property

58 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Morse-Skinner Ranch House between 2005 and 2020, burning about 72 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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	41
Debris and open burning	5
Arson/incendiarism	4
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
7 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
6 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
26 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
26 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
23 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
22 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
21 September 2008	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
20 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named

Every fire recorded in San Joaquin County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Morse-Skinner Ranch House: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Lodi Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in San Joaquin County

Storms near this property

9 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lodi, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 3 flood, 2 tornado, 1 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 3 injuries. 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
August 1997	Lightning	Lodi	3 hurt	no account filed
February 2017	Flood	Lodi	$100,000	Flood waters were reported in several homes in Acampo.
October 2008	Heavy Rain	Lodi	$100,000	Rain caused damage to the Lodi Middle School administration building. The building was undergoing roof repairs, and a temporary tarp was in place. The tarp failed, allowing rain to enter the building and resulting in more than $100,000 damage.
April 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Lodi	$15,000	Minor damage to residential property and to plastic film coverings on multiple commercial greenhouses.
April 2026	Flood	Lodi	-	California Highway Patrol reported 2 to 3 feet of water across two lanes at State Route 99 and State Route 12 eastbound offramp.
February 2025	Flood	Lodi	-	Eight inches of water on right hand side of road, starting to encroach on the slow lane at SR 99 and East Victor Rd from heavy rain.
April 2007	Funnel Cloud	Lodi	-	Two funnel clouds were reported by the general public.
April 1996	Tornado (F0)	Lodi	-	no account filed
April 1996	Tornado (F0)	Lodi	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in San Joaquin County

Maps showing this location

11 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.

1894 USGS Lodi quadrangle1:125000 - 3 printings
1910 USGS Castle quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1939 USGS Lodi quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1942 USGS Lodi quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Lodi South quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1968 USGS Lodi South quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1993 USGS Lodi quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

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
Lodi Arch	2.6 miles	1980
Hotel Lodi	2.6 miles	1995
Woman's Club of Lodi	2.7 miles	1988
Woodbridge Masonic Lodge No. 131	4.5 miles	1989
I.O.O.F. Hall	4.5 miles	1982
Cole's Five Cypress Farm	4.9 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86001878 in Record Group 79.
San Joaquin County	All 36 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.