Oakland Free Library-23rd Avenue Branch

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 100 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1897 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 335 fires within 5 miles of Oakland Free Library-23rd Avenue Branch between 1992 and 2020, burning about 322 acres in total. None started naturally. 43 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Every fire recorded in Alameda County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Oakland Free Library-23rd Avenue Branch: 8 past producers, 7 producers, 1 occurrence. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sulfur, Sulfur-Pyrite, Copper, Silver, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Alameda County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oakland, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 7 hail, 4 flood, 3 flash flood, 2 heavy rain. 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.

Every storm recorded in Alameda County

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.

• 1897 USGS Concord quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
• 1915 USGS Concord quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
• 1942 USGS Concord quadrangle1:62500
• 1943 USGS Concord quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Oakland East quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
• 1947 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
• 1948 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
• 1949 USGS Oakland East quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
• 1955 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
• 1957 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Concord quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
• 1959 USGS Oakland East quadrangle1:24000 - 6 printings
• 1960 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
• 1964 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
• 1971 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
• 1978 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
• 1985 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
• 1997 USGS Oakland East quadrangle1:24000

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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Oakland Free Library-Melrose Branch	under 500 feet	1996
	St. Joseph's Home for the Aged	0.2 miles	2016
	California Cotton Mills Company Factory	0.3 miles	2013
	Montgomery Ward and Company	0.3 miles	1999
	Alfred H. Cohen House	0.4 miles	1973
	Alameda Veterans' Memorial Building	0.9 miles	2007