Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1889.
From the record
“Vikingsholm is a 38-room mansion on the shore of Emerald Bay at Lake Tahoe, in El Dorado County, California, U.S., and on the National Register of Historic Places. It has been called "one of the finest examples of Scandinavian architecture in North America."”
Wikipedia article Vikingsholm, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 21 National Register listings published here for El Dorado County · listed in 1996 · category: District.
National Register reference number.96001078- 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
1889 to 1992
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
103 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
18891992
Fires near this property
253 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 253 fires within 5 miles of Vikingsholm
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 307 acres in total. 43 started naturally. 11 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
Recreation and ceremony
84
Natural
43
Smoking
43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
41
Debris and open burning
11
Arson/incendiarism
11
Power generation/transmission/distribution
11
Misuse of fire by a minor
8
Equipment and vehicle use
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
5 workings within 5 miles of Vikingsholm: 4 occurrences, 1 unknown.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Scandium. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
South Lake Tahoe, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 5 hail, 4 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.
Localized flooding was reported in areas south of Lake Tahoe. Sierra Pacific Power Company reported that at least eight power poles were knocked down, most likely due to the saturated ground. Power lines were also downed when trees fell on them. Around 4,000 people were left without power south of Lake Tahoe. This was the all-time record flood on Trout Creek in South Lake Tahoe and Tahoe Valley, flooding U.S. Highway 50. General Creek flooded California Highway 89 at Sugar Pine Point State Park.
Heavy rain combined with snow berms and clogged storm drains to bring flooding to around 10 homes in South Lake Tahoe starting on the 8th. Bill and Shirley Avenues saw the most flooding damage per a KCRA news article. The damages are roughly estimated.
Tahoe Daily Tribune reported that heavy rainfall caused flooding at two residences in South Lake Tahoe along Bill Avenue on 22 March. No damage estimates were available.
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.
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.
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.
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