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Photograph of Hotel Charlotte
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Hotel Charlotte

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.

From the record

“The Hotel Charlotte, also known as Hotel Charlotte & Cafe or Hotel Charlotte & Restaurant, is a hotel opened in 1921 in Groveland, California. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.”

Wikipedia article Hotel Charlotte (Groveland, California), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 32 National Register listings published here for Tuolumne County · listed in 1994 · category: Building.

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. 18736 Main St. (CA 120), Groveland, 95321
  • When was it listed? September 1994
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Groveland
  • National Register reference number. 94001162 - 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

1893 to 2001

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 108 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Hotel Charlotte, surveyed 2001
Topographic sheet covering Hotel Charlotte, surveyed 1893

Fires near this property

312 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 312 fires within 5 miles of Hotel Charlotte between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,156 acres in total. 23 started naturally. 26 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/undetermined110
Equipment and vehicle use62
Debris and open burning58
Arson/incendiarism26
Natural23
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Smoking7
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Recreation and ceremony7
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 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTuolumne-Calaveras UnitPML AIRPORT GROVELAND
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

Every fire recorded in Tuolumne County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 157 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 157 workings within 5 miles of Hotel Charlotte: 55 past producers, 49 occurrences, 19 prospects, 18 producers. 18 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
Duleek MineGold, Silver, CopperPast Producer
La GuriaGold, Lead, Copper, SilverProspect
Mary EllenGold, Antimony, Zinc, Lead, Copper, IronPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Pyrite, Silver, Sphalerite, Stibnite
Pine Mountain QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Reported OccuranceGypsum-AnhydriteOccurrence
Reported OccurenceCopperOccurrence
GroupGold, LeadPast ProducerGalena, Gold, Pyrite
Groveland-Moccasin-JacksonvilleGold, SilverProducer

Every working recorded in Tuolumne County

Storms near this property

4 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Groveland, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2000 and 2017: 2 heavy rain, 2 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2005HailGroveland$1,000no account filed
March 2017HailGroveland-A photo on Twitter showed large hail in Groveland, estimated to be 1.25 in diameter.
July 2015Heavy RainGroveland-Tuolumne Public Works reported a culvert under Evergreen road at the Peach Growers Campground that got overwhelmed by the intensity of rainfall from a thunderstorm.
January 2000Heavy RainGroveland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tuolumne County

Maps showing this location

13 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
Watts & Tannahill Company Storeunder 500 feet1995
Groveland Hotelunder 500 feet1994
Gamble Building and Miner's Bean Kettle1.9 miles1991

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 94001162 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.
  • 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.