BlockFrom the record
One of 42 National Register listings published here for Santa Cruz County · listed in 1992 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Davenport Jail
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 1 Center St., Davenport, 95017
- When was it listed? April 1992
- Category. building
- Census division. West Santa Cruz
- National Register reference number. 92000422 - 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.
Then and now
1902 to 1997The ground this property stands on, surveyed 95 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Fires near this property
83 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Davenport Jail between 1992 and 2020, burning about 594 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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 | 32 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 23 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 2001 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | San Mateo-Santa Cruz Unit | REDWOOD |
| 9 September 1999 | Natural | under an acre | San Mateo-Santa Cruz Unit | MARTIN |
| 8 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Central California District | UNNAMED FIRE 1843 |
| 8 September 2004 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | San Mateo-Santa Cruz Unit | CEMENT |
| 3 September 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | San Mateo-Santa Cruz Unit | DAVENPORT |
| 29 September 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | San Mateo-Santa Cruz Unit | PG&E #18 |
| 28 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | San Mateo-Santa Cruz Unit | LONESTAR |
| 26 September 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | San Mateo-Santa Cruz Unit | SMITH |
Mines and quarries near this property
9 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Davenport Jail: 4 producers, 2 unknowns, 2 occurrences, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gold, Clay, Limestone, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bonny Doon Limestone Quarry | Limestone, General | Producer | ||
| Unnamed Location | Limestone, Dimension | Occurrence | ||
| Davenport Cement Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay | Producer | ||
| Gold Gulch | Gold | Unknown | ||
| Majors Creek | Gold | Unknown | ||
| San Vicente Canyon | Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Bonny Doon Shale | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| San Vincente Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Unnamed Location | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence |
Storms near this property
1 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Davenport, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2017: 1 debris flow. 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 2017 | Debris Flow | Davenport | - | Mud and rocks on road. Bonny Doon Rd/SR1. |
Maps showing this location
15 surveysUnited 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.
- 1902 USGS Santa Cruz quadrangle1:125000 - 9 printings
- 1947 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:24000 - 6 printings
- 1955 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
- 1957 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Palo Alto quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
- 1985 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1991 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:24000
- 1997 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:24000
Listed places nearby
3 within 8 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Felton Presbyterian Church | 7.2 miles | 1978 |
 | Felton Covered Bridge | 7.3 miles | 1973 |
 | Wee Kirk | 8.0 miles | 2017 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 92000422 in Record Group 79. |
| Santa Cruz County | All 42 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.