Built in 1874 (Italianate architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1891.
From the record
“Durham House, at 2280 Durham-Dayton Rd. in Durham, California, was built in 1895 in Italianate style. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.”
Wikipedia article W. W. Durham House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 24 National Register listings published here for Butte County · listed in 1992 · category: Building · built in 1874, Italianate architecture.
National Register reference number.92000316- 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
369 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 369 fires within 5 miles of W. W. Durham House
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,511 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 16 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
133
Equipment and vehicle use
123
Debris and open burning
63
Arson/incendiarism
16
Smoking
11
Misuse of fire by a minor
9
Recreation and ceremony
5
Power generation/transmission/distribution
4
Railroad operations and maintenance
2
Natural
2
Other causes
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
8 workings within 5 miles of W. W. Durham House: 3 producers, 3 unknowns, 1 occurrence, 1 past producer.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Platinum, PGE. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Durham, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2005 and 2025: 4 flood, 1 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flash 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.
California Highway Patrol reported multiple road closures in the vicinity of Chico from heavy rain. Some highways that were impacted include both northbound and southboune lanes of Highway 99 from Garner to Kiefer.
Flooding caused traffic delays and one hour of road closures on northbound and southbound Highway 99 from Neal Road to Estates Drive in Chico. Sheetflow was reported from heavy rain off of recently burned areas from the Camp Fire.
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.
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.
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.
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