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Photograph of Marysville Historic Commercial District
Photograph by Noellegi, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Marysville Historic Commercial District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1888.

From the record

“The Marysville Historic Commercial District, in Marysville, California, is a 23-acre (9.3 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.”

Wikipedia article Marysville Historic Commercial District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Yuba 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

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 Marysville Historic Commercial District, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet covering Marysville Historic Commercial District, surveyed 1888

Fires near this property

915 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 915 fires within 5 miles of Marysville Historic Commercial District between 1996 and 2020, burning about 1,876 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 67 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/undetermined592
Debris and open burning80
Equipment and vehicle use76
Arson/incendiarism67
Misuse of fire by a minor49
Smoking38
Recreation and ceremony11
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNevada-Yuba-Placer Unitnot named
9 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
8 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNevada-Yuba-Placer Unitnot named
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNevada-Yuba-Placer Unitnot named
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNevada-Yuba-Placer Unitnot named
8 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNevada-Yuba-Placer UnitE 22ND ST / SAMPSON ST
8 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNevada-Yuba-Placer UnitMOTOCROSS

Every fire recorded in Yuba County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Marysville Historic Commercial District: 7 producers, 2 unknowns. 7 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Baldwin Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Garcia Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hallwood PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Marysville Rock Products CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Pacific Coast Aggregates IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Simpson Lane PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Speckert PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Spreckert PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Yuba River Sand CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Yuba County

Storms near this property

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marysville, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1999 and 2019: 1 wildfire, 1 lightning, 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 7 injuries. 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
October 1999WildfireMarysville6 hurt, $3,500,000no account filed
November 2009LightningMarysville1 hurt, $2,000CHP reported a woman injured when lightning struck power lines and went through a video game system she was playing.
March 2018FloodMarysville$1,000,000Heavy rain caused a railroad bridge in Marysville to sink. The bridge spans the Yuba River. Rail traffic over the bridge was shut down. A diesel pipeline attached to the bridge also had to be shut down. Union Pacific Railroad drove in new piles to stabilize the bridge. Repairs were completed on March 27.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindMarysville-A walnut tree was snapped 3 miles north of Marysville on highway 70. Time stamp of wind gust damage is estimated based on radar.

Every storm recorded in Yuba 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
Packard Libraryunder 500 feet1978
Hart Buildingunder 500 feet1982
US Post Office-Marysville Main0.1 miles1985
Jose Manuel Ramirez House0.1 miles1976
Bok Kai Temple0.2 miles1975
Warren P. Miller House0.3 miles1998

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 99000692 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Yuba CountyAll 10 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.