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Photograph of Downtown Woodland Historic District
Photograph by User:Bluewing405, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Downtown Woodland Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1907.

From the record

“The Downtown Woodland Historic District is a historic district in Woodland, California. The district encompasses roughly 370 acres (1.5 km2) and 59 contributing buildings.”

Wikipedia article Downtown Woodland Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Yolo County · listed in 1999 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Fires near this property

189 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 189 fires within 5 miles of Downtown Woodland Historic District between 2005 and 2020, burning about 275 acres in total. None started naturally. 12 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/undetermined145
Equipment and vehicle use17
Arson/incendiarism12
Smoking6
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Debris and open burning3

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
4 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa Unitnot named
3 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
3 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
3 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
28 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
27 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa Unitnot named
24 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa Unitnot named
22 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.1 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named

Every fire recorded in Yolo County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Downtown Woodland Historic District: 11 unknowns, 9 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Calcium. 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
Woodland PlantCalciumProducer
Ashley Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Cache Creek AggregatesSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cache Creek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cache Creek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cache Creek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Granite Construction Co.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Granite PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Yolo County

Storms near this property

7 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodland, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 3 flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2023Thunderstorm WindWoodland$10,000Strong straight-line winds downed multiple trees and utility poles near downtown Woodland. Sacramento International Airport reported a max gust of 46 mph. Time was estimated by radar.
April 2009Thunderstorm WindWoodland$7,000A gustnado developed ahead of a line of showers moving through the city of Woodland. The discontinuous damage path was about 1700 feet long and 20 feet across. A tree two feet in diameter was uprooted, a section of metal bleachers were moved, and several tents were damaged. There was minor damage to three mobile homes in a nearby mobile home park, with porches pulled off and large flower pots knocked over.
November 2024FloodWoodland-California Highway Patrol reported that half of the roadway was flooded at the intersection of State Route 16 and West Kentucky Avenue.
December 2021FloodWoodland-Yolo county reported numerous flooded and closed roadways. Reported storm total rainfall amounts in the area were around 2 to 2.5 inches.
January 2019FloodWoodland-The California Highway Patrol reported heavy rain caused flooding on Highway 16 in Woodland.
September 2019HailWoodland-A spotter SO47, located on highway 113 north of Davis, reported one inch hail stones.
October 1996Funnel CloudWoodland-no account filed

Every storm 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 middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Porter Buildingunder 500 feet1978
Hotel Woodlandunder 500 feet1994
Woodland Opera House0.1 miles1971
Woodland Public Library0.1 miles1981
I.O.O.F. Building0.2 miles1982
Yolo County Courthouse0.2 miles1987

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 99000471 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Yolo CountyAll 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.