Davis Subway

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1907.

From the record

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Yolo County · listed in 1998 · category: Structure.

Sources: 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 structuress as contributing to the listing.
Address. Richards Blvd. between Olive Dr. and 1st St., Davis, 95616
When was it listed? June 1998
Category. structure
Census division. Davis
National Register reference number. 98000713 - 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

102 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 102 fires within 5 miles of Davis Subway between 2005 and 2020, burning about 59 acres in total. None 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/undetermined	65
Arson/incendiarism	14
Smoking	10
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Debris and open burning	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
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 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	not named
7 September 2008	Smoking	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
6 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
30 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
3 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
29 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
28 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	not named
26 September 2006	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named

Every fire recorded in Yolo 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 Davis Subway: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. 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
	Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Yolo County

Storms near this property

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Davis, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2019: 1 funnel cloud, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Davis	$15,000	no account filed
September 2019	Tornado (EF0)	Davis	-	A tornado was reported by a University of California Davis atmospheric science student. The student was reported to be east of highway 101a and highway 29 around 5:41 pm pst and filmed the tornado.
March 1998	Funnel Cloud	Davis	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Yolo County

Maps showing this location

12 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 Davisville quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1915 USGS Swingle quadrangle1:31680
1947 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000
1952 USGS Davis quadrangle1:24000 - 8 printings
1954 USGS Davis quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1970 USGS Davis quadrangle1:24000
1975 USGS Davis quadrangle1:24000
1992 USGS Davis quadrangle1:24000
1994 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

5 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Dresbach-Hunt-Boyer House	0.1 miles	1976
Southern Pacific Railroad Station	0.2 miles	1976
TB-9	0.4 miles	2016
Joshua B. Tufts House	0.5 miles	1979
Animal Science Building	0.6 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98000713 in Record Group 79.
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.
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.