Yolo Branch Library

Built in 1918 (bungalow). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1907.

From the record

“The Yolo Branch Library is a library that serves the community of Yolo, California. The library, a Carnegie on the National Register of Historic Places, was designed by WH Weeks and built in 1918.”
Wikipedia article Yolo Branch Library, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Yolo County · listed in 1990 · category: Building · built in 1918, bungalow, by W. H. Weeks.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 200 Sacramento St., Yolo, 95695
When was it listed? December 1990
Category. building
Also known as. California Carnegie Libraries MPS
Census division. Knights Landing
When was it built? 1918
Architectural style. bungalow
Architect. W. H. Weeks
National Register reference number. 90001810 - 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

148 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 148 fires within 5 miles of Yolo Branch Library between 2005 and 2020, burning about 60 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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	113
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Arson/incendiarism	10
Smoking	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
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
3 September 2010	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
3 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
28 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
27 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	not named
24 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	not named
22 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.1 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
19 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	not named

Every fire recorded in Yolo County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Yolo Branch Library: 9 producers, 9 unknowns, 1 past producer. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Calcium. 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
Woodland Plant	Calcium	Producer
Cache Creek Aggregates	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Cache Creek Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Cache Creek Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Cache Creek Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Granite Construction Co.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Granite Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Pacific Cement & Aggregates	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Yolo County

Storms near this property

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yolo, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2019: 1 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
February 2019	Flood	Yolo	-	Roadway flooding reported on County Road 98B near Carter Lane.

Every storm recorded in Yolo County

Maps showing this location

10 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.

1907 USGS Woodland quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1915 USGS Yolo quadrangle1:31680
1941 USGS Woodland quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000
1952 USGS Woodland quadrangle1:24000 - 7 printings
1953 USGS Woodland quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1994 USGS Sacramento 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
Nelson Ranch	3.9 miles	1972
R. H. Beamer House	4.0 miles	1982
Walnut Street School	4.0 miles	2006
Woodland Public Library	4.1 miles	1981
Yolo County Courthouse	4.2 miles	1987
Porter Building	4.2 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90001810 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Yolo County	All 24 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.