Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1930.
From the record
“The Green Hotel, also known as the Shafter Hotel, is a historic hotel building located at 530 James St. in Shafter, California. The hotel was built in 1913 by the Kern County Land Company as lodging for prospective buyers at the Shafter Townsite.”
Wikipedia article Green Hotel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 23 National Register listings published here for Kern County · listed in 1989 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.89000204- 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
55 since 2005
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Green Hotel
between 2005 and 2020, burning about 26 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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
40
Arson/incendiarism
7
Equipment and vehicle use
4
Misuse of fire by a minor
2
Smoking
1
Debris and open burning
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
30 September 2018
Arson/incendiarism
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
3 September 2007
Equipment and vehicle use
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
21 September 2016
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
2 September 2005
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
16 September 2016
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
10 September 2018
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
6 August 2006
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
2 August 2018
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Shafter, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2016: 1 heavy rain.
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.
Reports of nuisance flooding and street ponding were submitted via Facebook of flooding in Shafter California in Kern County at approximately 2020 PST.
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.
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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