Arena Cove Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1943.

From the record

“Arena Cove Historic District is located on the northern coast of California in the United States. The historic district comprises several buildings and structures and lies in a small cove on the Pacific Ocean just to the south of Point Arena in Mendocino County.”
Wikipedia article Arena Cove Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 42 National Register listings published here for Mendocino 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 listing

Address. Arena Cove, Point Arena, 95468
When was it listed? September 1990
Category. district
Also known as. Point Arena MPS
Census division. Point Arena
National Register reference number. 90001363 - 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

101 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 101 fires within 5 miles of Arena Cove Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 131 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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	31
Debris and open burning	23
Equipment and vehicle use	21
Recreation and ceremony	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Arson/incendiarism	3
Other causes	3
Fireworks	2
Smoking	2
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
8 September 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Central California Agency	PT.ARENA
7 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Mendocino Unit	WINDY
7 September 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Central California Agency	WNDY
3 September 2003	Natural	1.0 acres	Northern California District	WINDY
29 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Mendocino Unit	WINDY
28 September 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Mendocino Unit	BIA #9
23 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Central California Agency	BIA #25
2 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Northern California District	MINER

Every fire recorded in Mendocino 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 Arena Cove Historic District: 3 producers. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Ellison Gravel Company	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Garcia Creek Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Garcia River Bar	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Mendocino County

Maps showing this location

9 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.

1943 USGS Point Arena quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1947 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS Point Arena quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
1960 USGS Point Arena quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Point Arena 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
Point Arena High School	0.5 miles	1990
Italian Hotel	0.6 miles	1990
St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church	0.9 miles	1990
LeGrand Morse House	0.9 miles	1990
Annie Palmer House	0.9 miles	1990
Billy Ketchum House	0.9 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90001363 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Mendocino County	All 42 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.