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Photograph of Saint Helena Southern Pacific Railroad Depot
Photograph by Sanfranman59, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Saint Helena Southern Pacific Railroad Depot

Built in 1895 (Victorian architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1942.

From the record

One of 88 National Register listings published here for Napa County · listed in 1997 · category: Building · built in 1895, Victorian architecture.

Sources: 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Railroad Ave., NE of jct. of Main St. and Madrona Ave., Saint Helena, 94574
  • When was it listed? January 1997
  • Category. building
  • Census division. St. Helena
  • When was it built? 1895
  • Architectural style. Victorian architecture
  • National Register reference number. 96001535 - 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.

Fires near this property

237 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 237 fires within 5 miles of Saint Helena Southern Pacific Railroad Depot between 1992 and 2020, burning about 68,241 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 14 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/undetermined92
Equipment and vehicle use70
Debris and open burning36
Arson/incendiarism14
Smoking10
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural3

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
8 September 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitSPRING
8 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitWEST
6 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitSPRING WHITE 2
5 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitSMOKEY OAK
28 September 2007Smokingunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitLAS POSADAS RD ANGWIN 22
28 September 1998Smokingunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitWILSON
28 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitWHITEHALL
27 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use67,484 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitGLASS

Every fire recorded in Napa County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 32 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 32 workings within 5 miles of Saint Helena Southern Pacific Railroad Depot: 14 occurrences, 7 prospects, 6 producers, 3 past producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Mercury, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, Perlite. 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
Glass Mountain DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenProspect
Napa Valley StoneStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
StirlingIronOccurrenceHematite
Sullinger ClaimChromiumOccurrenceChromite
Sullinger ClaimChromiumProspect
Unnamed LocationIronUnknown
Annadel FarmPerliteProducer
Glass Mountain DepositStoneOccurrenceObsidian
S. Lenz and Son Basalt Quarry and Plant.StoneOccurrence
S. Lnz. and Sn Bslt Qrry and PlntStoneProspect

Every working recorded in Napa County

Maps showing this location

10 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

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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 96001535 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Napa CountyAll 88 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.