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One of 73 National Register listings published here for Sonoma County · listed in 1987 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Hicks House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1935.
The listing
- Address. 3160 Hicks Rd., Graton, 95472
- When was it listed? July 1987
- Category. building
- Census division. Sebastopol
- Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
- National Register reference number. 87001157 - 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
1935 to 1983The ground this property stands on, surveyed 48 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Fires near this property
206 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 206 fires within 5 miles of Hicks House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 131 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 | 77 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 59 |
| Debris and open burning | 27 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 14 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 9 |
| Smoking | 8 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | MARTINELLI RD / RIVER RD |
| 6 September 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | BODEGA |
| 6 September 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | GRATON |
| 5 September 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | GREEN #3 |
| 4 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | BARNETT |
| 4 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 4 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | WHITEMAN |
| 29 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 21 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Hicks House: 9 unknowns, 6 producers, 5 occurrences, 1 past producer. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Chromium, Mercury, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Rock Pit and Mill | Stone, Dimension | Unknown | ||
| Canyon Rock Pit and Mill | Stone | Producer | ||
| Unnamed Location | Garnet | Unknown | ||
| Unnamed Location | Copper | Unknown | ||
| Unnamed Prospect | Gold | Occurrence | ||
| Mark West Creek | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Mirabel Sand & Gravel | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unnamed Prospect | Mercury | Unknown | ||
| Unnamed Prospect | Mercury | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Prospect | Mercury | Unknown |
Storms near this property
4 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Graton, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2000 and 2019: 3 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 2012 | Flood | Graton | $5,000 | A van full of people stalled in knee-deep water from Atascadero Creek on Graton Road. The people were stranded for 20 minutes before being rescued by fire crews. |
| February 2019 | Flood | Graton | - | Graton Road flooded from Atascadero Creek. |
| March 2011 | Flood | Graton | - | Green Valley Road, west of Sullivan in the town of Graton was closed due to flooding. Mark West Station Road, at Starr Road in the town of Windsor was closed due to flooding. |
| February 2000 | Flash Flood | Graton | - | no account filed |
Maps showing this location
10 surveysUnited 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.
- 1935 USGS Sebastopol quadrangle1:48000
- 1942 USGS Sebastopol quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
- 1947 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Sebastopol quadrangle1:24000 - 6 printings
- 1954 USGS Sebastopol quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Napa quadrangle1:100000
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | George A. Strout House | 3.1 miles | 1980 |
 | Gold Ridge Farm | 3.2 miles | 1978 |
 | Petaluma and Santa Rosa Railway Powerhouse | 3.4 miles | 1991 |
 | Sebastopol Depot of the Petaluma and Santa Rosa Railway | 3.4 miles | 1996 |
 | Hinds Hotel | 5.2 miles | 1979 |
| Freestone Store | 5.2 miles | 2022 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 87001157 in Record Group 79. |
| Sonoma County | All 73 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.