Mariposa Town Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1912.

From the record

One of 44 National Register listings published here for Mariposa County · listed in 1991 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by Charles, 11th, Jones and 4th Sts., Mariposa, 95338
When was it listed? May 1991
Category. district
Census division. Mariposa
National Register reference number. 91000560 - 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

385 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 385 fires within 5 miles of Mariposa Town Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,421 acres in total. 6 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/undetermined	121
Equipment and vehicle use	101
Debris and open burning	92
Arson/incendiarism	25
Misuse of fire by a minor	24
Power generation/transmission/distribution	10
Natural	6
Smoking	5
Recreation and ceremony	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
9 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Merced-Mariposa Unit	COLORADO RD MIDPINES
9 September 2013	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Merced-Mariposa Unit	BUCKEYE
9 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	36 acres	Merced-Mariposa Unit	ALTA
9 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Merced-Mariposa Unit	TITLE
9 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Merced-Mariposa Unit	MORMAN
8 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	MORNING
8 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Merced-Mariposa Unit	HWY 49 S/ FAIRGROUNDS RD
7 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Merced-Mariposa Unit	49 NORTH

Every fire recorded in Mariposa County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 181 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 181 workings within 5 miles of Mariposa Town Historic District: 112 past producers, 37 occurrences, 23 producers, 6 unknowns. 23 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Silver, Lead. 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	Recorded
Lonesome Pine	Gold, Silver, Copper	Producer
Lonesome Pine	Gold, Copper, Silver	Past Producer
Ortega	Gold, Zinc, Copper, Lead	Past Producer	Gold, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Our Chance	Gold, Copper, Lead, Manganese, Silver	Past Producer	Chalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Pyrite
Princeton	Gold, Lead, Zinc, Copper	Past Producer	Gold, Pyrite
Unspecified Locality	Mercury, Gold	Past Producer	Amalgam, Gold
Ashworth Ranch Deposit Big Spring Hill	Magnesite	Occurrence	Magnesite
Big Spring Hill	Magnesite	Occurrence
Iron-Copper Deposit	Iron, Copper	Unknown
Lawerence L Zollars	Slate, Dimension	Producer

Every working recorded in Mariposa County

Storms near this property

14 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mariposa, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 7 flood, 3 heavy rain, 2 wildfire, 1 drought. The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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
December 1996	Heavy Rain	Mariposa	1 killed, 1 hurt, $4,000	no account filed
July 2001	Wildfire	Mariposa	$5,000,000	The Briceburg Fire burned 728 acres and cost $5M to control by August 3rd The cause of the fire is unknown but no structures were lost.
July 2003	Wildfire	Mariposa	$810,000	The Hunter Fire was fought by the California Division of Forestry and consumed 562 acres. The cause of the fire was unknown but no fatalities occurred nor were any structures lost.
November 2012	Flood	Mariposa	$25,000	The Highway Patrol had to close Highway 49 due to flooding.
January 2023	Flood	Mariposa	-	Public report of roadway flooding in the left lane of SR 49 at Smith Rd. in Mariposa.
March 2018	Debris Flow	Mariposa	-	California Highway Patrol reported a mudslide caused a partial closure of State Highway 49 near Bagby.
December 2018	Flood	Mariposa	-	California Highway Patrol reported moving water on Yaqui Gulch road at 4900 block just to the south of State Route 140.
February 2017	Flood	Mariposa	-	California Highway Patrol reported a stranded vehicle on Guadalupe Creek Road near Yaqui Gulch Road with 100 feet of flood water running on both sides.
February 2001	Drought	Mariposa	-	Despite 125% above normal precipitation for the month for the area, and the state in general, below normal seasonal precipitation-to-date continues. The month ended with the statewide water content of its snowpack at 75%. This was an improvement from the start of the month with the total up to that time running at only 60%.
January 2006	Heavy Rain	Mariposa	-	no account filed
March 2005	Heavy Rain	Mariposa	-	no account filed
March 2001	Flood	Mariposa	-	no account filed
February 2000	Flood	Mariposa	-	no account filed
February 2000	Flood	Mariposa	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mariposa County

Maps showing this location

8 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.

1912 USGS Mariposa quadrangle1:125000 - 6 printings
1947 USGS Mariposa quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
1947 USGS Mariposa quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1947 USGS Mariposa quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Mariposa quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Mariposa quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1963 USGS Mariposa quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Shaver Lake quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Mariposa County Courthouse	0.1 miles	1977
Mariposa County High School Auditorium	0.2 miles	1991
St. Joseph Catholic Church, Rectory and Cemetery	0.4 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91000560 in Record Group 79.
Mariposa County	All 44 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.