Isleton Chinese and Japanese Commercial Districts

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1910.

From the record

“The Isleton Chinese and Japanese Commercial Districts is located in Isleton, California in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, a large agricultural area in Sacramento County, California. Also known as the Isleton Asian American District, it served as the commercial and social center for both the town's Chinese and Japanese residents and the laborers working in nearby canneries, farms, and ranches.”
Wikipedia article Isleton Chinese and Japanese Commercial Districts, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 106 National Register listings published here for Sacramento County · listed in 1991 · category: District.

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 41 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Bounded by River Rd. and Union, E and H Sts., Isleton, 95641
When was it listed? March 1991
Category. district
Census division. Isleton
National Register reference number. 91000297 - 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

11 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Isleton Chinese and Japanese Commercial Districts between 2005 and 2017, burning about 17 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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	8
Arson/incendiarism	2
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
6 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9.0 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
5 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
23 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
20 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
5 July 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
31 July 2010	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
21 July 2016	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
6 June 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named

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
Walnut Grove Commercial/Residential Historic District	7.2 miles	1990
Imperial Theatre	7.4 miles	1982
Walnut Grove Chinese-American Historic District	7.4 miles	1990
Walnut Grove Japanese-American Historic District	7.5 miles	1990
Walnut Grove Gakuen Hall	7.6 miles	1980
John Stanford Brown House	7.8 miles	2004

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91000297 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.