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Photograph of Gamble Building and Miner's Bean Kettle
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Gamble Building and Miner's Bean Kettle

Built in 1850 (Italianate architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.

From the record

“The Gamble Building and Miner's Bean Kettle in Big Oak Flat, California was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.”

Wikipedia article Gamble Building and Miner's Bean Kettle, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 32 National Register listings published here for Tuolumne County · listed in 1991 · category: Building · built in 1850, Italianate architecture.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 17544 CA 120, Big Oak Flat, 95305
  • When was it listed? March 1991
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Groveland
  • When was it built? 1850
  • Architectural style. Italianate architecture
  • National Register reference number. 91000335 - 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

283 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 283 fires within 5 miles of Gamble Building and Miner's Bean Kettle between 1992 and 2020, burning about 13,363 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 25 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/undetermined108
Equipment and vehicle use49
Debris and open burning47
Arson/incendiarism25
Natural18
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Recreation and ceremony10
Smoking6
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Firearms and explosives use1
Fireworks1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 1999Naturalunder an acreCentral California DistrictLIGHTNING 134
9 September 1999Naturalunder an acreCentral California DistrictLIGHTNING 26
9 September 1999Naturalunder an acreTuolumne-Calaveras UnitLIGHTNING#26
8 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral California DistrictPROVOST
8 September 1997Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresCentral California DistrictMARSHES
8 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCentral California DistrictRAILROAD
8 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTuolumne-Calaveras UnitPRIEST #3
7 September 1997Arson/incendiarism470 acresCentral California DistrictPREIST II

Every fire recorded in Tuolumne County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 164 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 164 workings within 5 miles of Gamble Building and Miner's Bean Kettle: 56 occurrences, 48 past producers, 30 unknowns, 22 producers. 22 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Gold, Silver, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Ashley PropertyAsbestosProspect
Big Oak Flat No. 1Gold, Silver, Zinc, Lead, CopperPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Copper, Galena, Gold, Sphalerite
La GuriaGold, Lead, Copper, SilverProspect
Pine Mountain QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Reported OccuranceGypsum-AnhydriteOccurrence
GroupGold, LeadPast ProducerGalena, Gold, Pyrite
Groveland-Moccasin-JacksonvilleGold, SilverProducer
Jack LodeGold, SilverProducer
Little WonderGold, LeadPast ProducerGalena, Gold, Pyrite
Moccasin CreekCopperOccurrenceChalcopyrite

Every working recorded in Tuolumne County

Maps showing this location

12 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.

Listed places nearby

3 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Hotel Charlotte1.9 miles1994
Watts & Tannahill Company Store1.9 miles1995
Groveland Hotel1.9 miles1994

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 91000335 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Tuolumne CountyAll 32 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.