Live Oak Historic Commercial District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1888.

From the record

“The Live Oak Historic Commercial District is a historic district in downtown Live Oak, Sutter County, California. The district includes twelve buildings and a row of palm trees; eight of the buildings and the trees contribute to the district's historical significance.”
Wikipedia article Live Oak Historic Commercial District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Sutter County · listed in 1998 · 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 8 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. Along Broadway between Pennington Rd. and Elm St., Live Oak, 95953
When was it listed? January 1998
Category. district
Census division. Live Oak
National Register reference number. 97001657 - 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

1888 to 1993

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 105 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Live Oak Historic Commercial District, surveyed 1993

Topographic sheet covering Live Oak Historic Commercial District, surveyed 1888

Fires near this property

208 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 208 fires within 5 miles of Live Oak Historic Commercial District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 460 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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	110
Debris and open burning	44
Equipment and vehicle use	33
Misuse of fire by a minor	12
Smoking	5
Arson/incendiarism	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Recreation and ceremony	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 1996	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Butte Unit	PAMMA,G
7 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Butte Unit	HWY99
6 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	GILSTRAP
5 September 2014	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Butte Unit	LEVEE
5 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Butte Unit	HWY 99 /E EVANS REIMER R
5 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Butte Unit	LARKIN
5 September 2007	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Butte Unit	CHANDON IC GRDLY FIRE
5 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Butte Unit	HWY 99

Every fire recorded in Sutter County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Live Oak Historic Commercial District: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Meyer Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Sutter 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.

1888 USGS Marysville quadrangle1:125000
1891 USGS Marysville quadrangle1:125000
1894 USGS Marysville quadrangle1:125000
1895 USGS Marysville quadrangle1:125000 - 6 printings
1912 USGS Gridley quadrangle1:31680
1952 USGS Gridley quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1952 USGS Gridley quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Chico quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1960 USGS Chico quadrangle1:250000
1993 USGS Yuba City quadrangle1:100000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97001657 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sutter County	All 3 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.