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One of 35 National Register listings published here for Placer County · listed in 1999 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Colfax Freight Depot
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1891.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. 7 Main St., Colfax, 95713
- When was it listed? December 1999
- Category. building
- Census division. Colfax-Monumental Ridge
- National Register reference number. 99001564 - 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
533 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 533 fires within 5 miles of Colfax Freight Depot between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,154 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 24 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 | 205 |
| Debris and open burning | 135 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 91 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 24 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 24 |
| Smoking | 14 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 13 |
| Natural | 9 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 8 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 6 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Firearms and explosives use | 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 1992 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nevada-Yuba-Placer Unit | PGE |
| 8 September 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nevada-Yuba-Placer Unit | SECRET |
| 7 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nevada-Yuba-Placer Unit | POWERLINE |
| 7 September 2004 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Central California District | BLUM |
| 7 September 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Central California District | PENINSULA |
| 6 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | GRAND |
| 6 September 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Nevada-Yuba-Placer Unit | CARRIE |
| 5 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | ROLLINS |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 144 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 144 workings within 5 miles of Colfax Freight Depot: 48 occurrences, 39 unknowns, 36 past producers, 17 producers. 17 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Chromium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bear River | Gold, Arsenic, Silver | Unknown | ||
| Colfax Mine | Clay | Producer | ||
| Iowa Hill District | Gold, Platinum, Silver | Past Producer | 1853 | |
| Steele Property | Mineral Pigments | Occurrence | Mineral Pigments | |
| Unnamed | Gold, Silver, Arsenic | Past Producer | Gold, Pyrite, Tetrahedrite | |
| Victory | Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead | Past Producer | Chalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Pyrite | |
| You Bet White Mill | Silica | Producer | ||
| Johnson | Antimony | Occurrence | ||
| Johnson | Antimony | Occurrence | ||
| Benjastorf Deposit | Iron | Occurrence |
Storms near this property
3 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Colfax, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2017 and 2019: 2 flash flood, 1 debris flow. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2017 | Debris Flow | Colfax | $6,000 | There was a mudslide blocking Highway 174 in Colfax. |
| May 2019 | Flash Flood | Colfax | - | There was 1 1/2 feet of water flooding the west bound lane of I80. |
| May 2019 | Flash Flood | Colfax | - | Flooding of entire west bound off-ramp of I80 in Colfax. |
Maps showing this location
13 surveysUnited 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.
- 1891 USGS Colfax quadrangle1:125000
- 1892 USGS Colfax quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Colfax quadrangle1:125000
- 1898 USGS Colfax quadrangle1:125000
- 1900 USGS Colfax quadrangle1:125000
- 1902 USGS Colfax quadrangle1:125000 - 7 printings
- 1938 USGS Colfax quadrangle1:125000 - 3 printings
- 1949 USGS Colfax quadrangle1:24000 - 6 printings
- 1950 USGS Colfax quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
- 1951 USGS Colfax quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Chico quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Chico quadrangle1:250000
- 1977 USGS Truckee quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
Listed places nearby
2 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Colfax Passenger Depot | 0.1 miles | 1999 |
| Stevens Trail | 2.6 miles | 2002 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 99001564 in Record Group 79. |
| Placer County | All 35 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.