McCloud

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1886.

From the record

“McCloud is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Siskiyou County, California, United States. Its population is 945 as of the 2020 census, down from 1,101 from the 2010 census.”
Wikipedia article McCloud, California, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Siskiyou County · listed in 1990 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by Columbero Dr., Main St., W. Minnesota Ave., and Lawndale Ct., McCloud, 96057
When was it listed? March 1990
Category. district
Census division. McCloud-Medicine Lake
National Register reference number. 90000444 - 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

1886 to 1998

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 112 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering McCloud, surveyed 1998

Topographic sheet covering McCloud, surveyed 1886

Fires near this property

108 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of McCloud between 1992 and 2020, burning about 97 acres in total. 24 started naturally. 6 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	25
Natural	24
Debris and open burning	16
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Recreation and ceremony	11
Smoking	7
Arson/incendiarism	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Other causes	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Siskiyou Unit	MCCLOUD MILL
6 September 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Shasta-Trinity National Forest	SKI
6 September 1997	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Shasta-Trinity National Forest	MUD
5 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Siskiyou Unit	HIGHWAY
5 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Siskiyou Unit	LIGHTNING #70
5 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Siskiyou Unit	LIGHTNING #72
5 September 2003	Natural	30 acres	Shasta-Trinity National Forest	THIMBLEBERRY
4 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Shasta-Trinity National Forest	PILGRIM

Every fire recorded in Siskiyou County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of McCloud: 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Cinder Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown
Unidentified Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unidentified Gravel Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Siskiyou County

Maps showing this location

11 surveys

United 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.

1886 USGS Shasta quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1894 USGS Shasta quadrangle1:250000 - 8 printings
1935 USGS Dunsmuir quadrangle1:125000 - 4 printings
1948 USGS Weed quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1950 USGS Weed quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Shasta quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1958 USGS Weed quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1963 USGS Weed quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Mount Shasta quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings
1986 USGS McCloud quadrangle1:24000
1998 USGS Mc Cloud quadrangle1:24000

Listed places nearby

1 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Dunsmuir Historic Commercial District	7.5 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90000444 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Siskiyou County	All 19 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.