Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1915.
“The Tehachapi Railroad Depot was a railroad station in Tehachapi, California. The Southern Pacific Railroad built the line through the area in 1876.”
Wikipedia article Tehachapi Railroad Depot, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 23 National Register listings published here for Kern County · listed in 1999 · category: Building.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
The ground this property stands on, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 156 fires within 5 miles of Tehachapi Railroad Depot between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,108 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 17 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 | 83 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 20 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 18 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 17 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 35 acres | Kern County Fire Department | not named |
| 9 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 35 acres | Kern County Fire Department | VISTA |
| 9 September 2012 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Kern County Fire Department | not named |
| 6 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kern County Fire Department | not named |
| 5 September 2017 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Central California District | WATER |
| 4 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.1 acres | Kern County Fire Department | not named |
| 4 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3,128 acres | California Desert District | CANYON |
| 28 September 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Tehachapi Railroad Depot: 11 past producers, 5 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Tungsten, Gold, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Got Rocks | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Monolith Cement Plant | Calcium | Producer | ||
| Pine Tree Mine | Gold, Tungsten | Past Producer | ||
| Summit Lime Co. | Tungsten, Gold | Occurrence | Gold, Scheelite | |
| Tehachapi | Mercury | Producer | ||
| Tehachapi Lake Clay Deposit | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Pine Tree | Gold | Producer | ||
| Pine Tree | Gold, Tungsten | Past Producer | ||
| Tehachapi Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Tehachapi Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tehachapi, the town this property stands in, in 25 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 6 heavy rain, 5 flood, 4 flash flood, 3 wildfire. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1997 | Wildfire | Tehachapi | $200,000 | 1151 acres of grassland and forest were destroyed. |
| November 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tehachapi | $80,000 | Thunderstorm wind, aided by terrain channeling up a mountain side, lifted a patio deck subsequently pulling the roof off from a house southwest of Stallion Springs. The damage was very localized, but totally demolishing one house. Small hail occurred with the thunderstorm passage as reported by a couple of witnesses. |
| August 2000 | Lightning | Tehachapi | $10,000 | Thunderstorm activity again occurred for many of the desert and mountain areas of Interior Central California. With frequent lightning activity occurring, a lightning strike was reported to have caused a car fire in the Tehachapi area of the Kern County Mountains. There were no injuries reported. |
| July 2003 | Flash Flood | Tehachapi | $5,000 | Highline Road southwest of Tehachapi in the Kern County Mountains was closed due to flooding over the roadway in the late afternoon/early evening of the 31st. |
| September 1997 | Lightning | Tehachapi | $5,000 | Lightning strike from early morning thunderstorm activity. |
| April 2003 | Heavy Rain | Tehachapi | $1,000 | no account filed |
| August 2023 | Flood | Tehachapi | - | California Highway Patrol reported roadway flooding on Sand Canyon Rd. north of SR 58. |
| August 2022 | Flood | Tehachapi | - | Broadcast media report of street flooding in downtown Tehachapi as the result of heavy rainfall. |
| August 2022 | Heavy Rain | Tehachapi | - | A HADS station 6NE Tehachapi measured 1.52 inches of rainfall from a thunderstorm in two hours. |
| August 2022 | Heavy Rain | Tehachapi | - | The KRN02 RAWS 3S Tehachapi measured 0.66 inches of rainfall from a thunderstorm in two hours. |
| January 2017 | Flood | Tehachapi | - | California Highway Patrol reported roadway flooding at Highway 58 and State Route 202 near Tehachapi. |
| June 2015 | Flash Flood | Tehachapi | - | Over two inches of rain fell over Tehachapi during the afternoon of the 12th. This resulted in a mud/debris flow near highway 58 and highway 202 in the center of Tehachapi, which closed the roadway for a couple of hours. |
| February 2005 | Hail | Tehachapi | - | Hail varying from 3/4 to 1" was reported at Alpine Forest southwest of Tehachapi in the Kern County Mountains. |
| July 2003 | Wildfire | Tehachapi | - | The Hillside Fire along Highway 58 and fought by Kern County Fire Department burned 1830 acres. Its cost and cause are unknown but there were no structures or lives lost. |
| July 2003 | Wildfire | Tehachapi | - | The Mercury Fire was fought by the Kern County Fire Department and it burned 300 acres. Its cause was human and no costs are known. There were no structures or lives lost in the fire. |
| February 2000 | Flood | Tehachapi | - | Local road flooding with debris deposited on the roadway occurred in the Tehachapi Valley along Highline Road. |
| February 2006 | Heavy Rain | Tehachapi | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Heavy Rain | Tehachapi | - | no account filed |
| October 2005 | Heavy Rain | Tehachapi | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Flash Flood | Tehachapi | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Flash Flood | Tehachapi | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | High Wind | Tehachapi | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Tehachapi | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Lightning | Tehachapi | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Flood | Tehachapi | - | no account filed |
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.
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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Errea House | 0.4 miles | 1997 |
 | Courtlandt Gross House | 5.1 miles | 1987 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 99001263 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Kern County | All 23 listed properties in this county. |
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