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Glen Oaks Ranch

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1916.

From the record

One of 73 National Register listings published here for Sonoma County · listed in 1994 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. 13255 Sonoma Hwy., Glen Ellen, 95442
  • When was it listed? October 1994
  • Category. district
  • Census division. Sonoma
  • National Register reference number. 94001223 - 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

1916 to 1983

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 67 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Glen Oaks Ranch, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet covering Glen Oaks Ranch, surveyed 1916

Fires near this property

296 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 296 fires within 5 miles of Glen Oaks Ranch between 1992 and 2020, burning about 57,085 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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/undetermined117
Equipment and vehicle use108
Debris and open burning27
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Smoking12
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Arson/incendiarism7
Recreation and ceremony2

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 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa Unitnot named
9 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitCAVEDALE
8 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitBRISTOL
8 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use1.4 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitARNOLD
8 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitHAWKS
7 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitBARCELONA
6 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitARNOLD
5 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitTRINITY

Every fire recorded in Sonoma County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 33 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 33 workings within 5 miles of Glen Oaks Ranch: 12 past producers, 11 producers, 5 prospects, 3 occurrences. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Diatomite, Clay, 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
Search GroupCopperProspect
Trinity QuarryStone, DimensionProducer
Valley of the MoonFlagstonePast Producer
Nuns Canyon QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed LocationAluminumOccurrence
Unnamed LocationGeothermalOccurrence
Unnamed LocationPerliteProspect
Unnamed LocationGeothermalOccurrence
Unnamed LocationPerliteProspect
Unnamed ProspectAluminumProspect

Every working recorded in Sonoma County

Storms near this property

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glen Ellen, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2019: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2019Debris FlowGlen Ellen-Mud/dirt/rock slide reported at Warm Springs Rd and Arnold Dr.

Every storm recorded in Sonoma County

Maps showing this location

10 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.

Listed places nearby

6 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 Chauvet1.2 miles1990
Sonoma State Home-Main Building1.7 miles2000
Jack London Ranch2.1 miles1966
Nicholas Carriger Estate5.2 miles2001
Vallejo Estate5.7 miles1972
Sonoma Depot5.9 miles1975

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 94001223 in Record Group 79.
Sonoma CountyAll 73 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.