Photograph of Downtown Winters Historic District — Photograph by Brian Wickstrom, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Main Street Historic District- Winters

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1907.

From the record

“The Downtown Winters Historic District, also known as the Main Street Historic District, is a historic district in Winters, Yolo County, California which includes the block of Main Street between Railroad Avenue and First Street. The district is the commercial center of Winters and includes commercial buildings built between the 1870s and 1912.”
Wikipedia article Downtown Winters Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Yolo County · listed in 1997 · category: District.

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 13 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Main Street Historic District-- Winters - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 1--48 Main St., Winters, 95694
When was it listed? January 1997
Category. district
Census division. Winters
National Register reference number. 96001536 - 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

146 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 146 fires within 5 miles of Main Street Historic District- Winters between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,512 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined	80
Equipment and vehicle use	33
Debris and open burning	14
Arson/incendiarism	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Smoking	2
Natural	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
9 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	BERRYESSA 2
9 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	75 acres	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	PLEASANTS
8 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	LAMB
29 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	292
27 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	HWY 128 VACAVILLE
27 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.5 acres	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	PLEASANTS
26 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	CHAMBERS

Every fire recorded in Yolo County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Main Street Historic District- Winters: 2 unknowns, 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Platinum. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Putah Creek	Gold, Platinum	Past Producer	Stream Placer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Putah Creek Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Valley Gravel Co. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Yolo 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.

1907 USGS Woodland quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1916 USGS Winters quadrangle1:31680
1941 USGS Woodland quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Winters quadrangle1:24000 - 6 printings
1953 USGS Woodland quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1994 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96001536 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Yolo County	All 24 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.