Walnut Grove Commercial/Residential Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1910.

From the record

One of 106 National Register listings published here for Sacramento County · listed in 1990 · category: District.

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 18 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Browns Alley and River Rd., Walnut Grove, 95690
When was it listed? April 1990
Category. district
Census division. Isleton
National Register reference number. 90000551 - 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

5 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Walnut Grove Commercial/Residential Historic District between 2004 and 2020, burning about 12 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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	2
Debris and open burning	1
Fireworks	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
22 June 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Central California District	CRP VC
13 June 2020	Fireworks	under an acre	Cordelia Fire Protection District	CRP PLATFORM
3 May 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Central California District	FIELD M
20 May 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Central California District	DESMOND
9 October 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	Central California District	PRESERVE

Every fire recorded in Sacramento County

Maps showing this location

9 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.

1910 USGS Isleton quadrangle1:31680 - 3 printings
1947 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000
1952 USGS Isleton quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1952 USGS Rio Vista quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1978 USGS Isleton 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
Imperial Theatre	0.2 miles	1982
Walnut Grove Chinese-American Historic District	0.2 miles	1990
Walnut Grove Japanese-American Historic District	0.3 miles	1990
Walnut Grove Gakuen Hall	0.4 miles	1980
John Stanford Brown House	0.6 miles	2004
Locke Historic Boarding House	0.9 miles	1971

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90000551 in Record Group 79.
Sacramento County	All 106 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.