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Gladstone Houses

Built in 1909 (American Craftsman). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1890.

From the record

“The Gladstone Houses, in Shasta County, California near French Gulch, California, are two Craftsman style houses that were built in 1909. They were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.”

Wikipedia article Gladstone Houses, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 20 National Register listings published here for Shasta County · listed in 1995 · category: Building · built in 1909, American Craftsman, by Gustav Stickley.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 12962--12964 Cline Gulch Rd., French Gulch, 96033
  • When was it listed? November 1995
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Southwest Shasta
  • When was it built? 1909
  • Architectural style. American Craftsman
  • Architect. Gustav Stickley
  • National Register reference number. 95001374 - 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

1890 to 1998

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 Gladstone Houses, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet covering Gladstone Houses, surveyed 1890

Fires near this property

97 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 97 fires within 5 miles of Gladstone Houses between 1992 and 2020, burning about 245,036 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 12 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
Equipment and vehicle use22
Natural20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Arson/incendiarism12
Debris and open burning9
Recreation and ceremony6
Smoking5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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 2010Naturalunder an acreNorthern California DistrictSHU FORK
9 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreShasta-Trinity UnitFRENCH
9 September 1998Naturalunder an acreNorthern California DistrictLIGHTNING 33
9 September 1998Naturalunder an acreNorthern California DistrictLIGHTNING 32
5 September 2001Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresNorthern California DistrictIRON
3 September 2003Naturalunder an acreNorthern California DistrictSHU 5 4
28 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWhiskeytown National Recreation AreaTRINITY2
26 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreShasta-Trinity UnitTRINITY #2

Every fire recorded in Shasta County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 140 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 140 workings within 5 miles of Gladstone Houses: 60 past producers, 39 unknowns, 29 occurrences, 9 producers. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Sulfur-Pyrite, Iron. 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
AmericanGold, Arsenic, Lead, SulfurPast ProducerGalena, Gold, Pyrite
BalaklalaCopper, Silver, Gold, IronPast Producer1895, 1948
Balaklava MineCopper, Silver, Zinc, Gold, Sulfur-PyritePast Producer1890, 1906
Iron Mountain MineCopper, Silver, Gold, Zinc, Sulfur-PyritePast Producer1865, 1879
Iron Mountain DistrictCopper, BismuthOccurrenceREPLACEMENT, VEINS
Iron Mountain MineCopper, Zinc, Gold, Platinum, Silver, IronPast Producer1865, 1897, 1962
KeystoneCopper, Zinc, Silver, GoldPast ProducerChalcopyrite
Keystone MineGold, Silver, Zinc, Copper, Sulfur-PyritePast Producer1900, 1923
Rotero-StevenChromiumOccurrence
Salt Springs No. 1GeothermalUnknown

Every working recorded in Shasta County

Storms near this property

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names French Gulch, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2018: 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2018FloodFrench Gulch-Rock slide was reported on State Route 299 east of Buckhorn Summit.

Every storm recorded in Shasta County

Maps showing this location

9 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

1 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
French Gulch Historic District3.5 miles1972

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 95001374 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Shasta CountyAll 20 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.