Adin Supply Company

Built in 1906. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1886.

From the record

“The Adin Supply Company, located on the west side of Main St. between Center and McDowell Sts. in Adin, California, was probably built in 1906. The listing included two contributing buildings.”
Wikipedia article Adin Supply Company, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Modoc County · listed in 1997 · category: Building · built in 1906.

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. W side of Main St. between Center and McDowell Sts., Adin, 96006
When was it listed? February 1997
Category. building
Census division. Adin-Lookout
When was it built? 1906
National Register reference number. 97000028 - 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

1886 to 1993

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 107 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Adin Supply Company, surveyed 1993

Topographic sheet covering Adin Supply Company, surveyed 1886

Fires near this property

59 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Adin Supply Company between 1992 and 2019, burning about 657 acres in total. 31 started naturally. 4 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
Natural	31
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Debris and open burning	6
Arson/incendiarism	4

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
6 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Lassen-Modoc Unit	LIGHTNING #39
28 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Northern California District	WILL
28 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Lassen-Modoc Unit	ROUND FIRE
21 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Northern California District	SURPRISE
2 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Modoc National Forest	NOT NAMED
16 September 2011	Natural	under an acre	Lassen-Modoc Unit	3-15 ROUND
11 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	3-15 ROUND
30 August 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Northern California District	ADIN

Every fire recorded in Modoc 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.

1886 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:250000
1892 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:250000 - 7 printings
1954 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1958 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Adin quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1990 USGS Adin quadrangle1:24000
1993 USGS Adin quadrangle1:24000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97000028 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Modoc County	All 7 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.