Placerville Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Boise County · listed in 1984 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by townsite limits, Placerville, 83666
When was it listed? September 1984
Category. district
Census division. Horseshoe Bend
National Register reference number. 84001029 - 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

105 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 105 fires within 5 miles of Placerville Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 172 acres in total. 68 started naturally. 2 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
Natural	68
Recreation and ceremony	12
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Debris and open burning	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Other causes	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 2012	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	WEST FORK
9 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Boise National Forest	TOWN FIRE
9 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	SWEDE CREEK
9 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	IOWA MINE ROAD
7 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	OPHIR CREEK
7 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Boise National Forest	OLD HAHN
6 September 2006	Natural	3.0 acres	Boise National Forest	GRANITE
6 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Boise National Forest	SWEDE CREEK

Every fire recorded in Boise County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 91 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 91 workings within 5 miles of Placerville Historic District: 47 past producers, 24 occurrences, 9 unknowns, 8 producers. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Lead, Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Alder Creek & West Fork	Thorium, Gold, Zirconium, Niobium (Columbium)	Past Producer
Belshazzar	Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper	Past Producer
Blue Rock	Gold, Zinc, Lead, Silver, Copper	Past Producer
Blue Rock Deposit	Lead, Zinc, Copper, Gold, Silver	Occurrence	Galena, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite
Blue Rock Deposit	Lead, Copper, Zinc, Gold, Silver	Unknown
Blue Rock Group	Lead, Zinc, Silver, Gold	Occurrence	Vein
Buckskin Group Prospect	Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc, Vanadium	Occurrence	Bismuth, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite, Stibnite
Buckskin Mine	Lead, Silver, Bismuth, Vanadium, Zinc	Occurrence
Buckskin Mine	Silver, Zinc, Lead, Copper	Past Producer
Bummer Mill Diggings	Gold, REE, Molybdenum	Unknown

Every working recorded in Boise County

Storms near this property

5 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Placerville, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1996 and 2008: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Placerville	-	Town Creek RAWS reported a thunderstorm wind gust of 90 MPH.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Placerville	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and power lines along Harris Creek Road and knocked down trees and power lines in the Wilderness Ranch area.
May 1998	Hail	Placerville	-	A cluster of severe thunderstorms produced hailstones ranging in size from .8 inch to 1.75 inches over the Boise Mountains.
June 1996	Heavy Rain	Placerville	-	no account filed
December 1996	Hail	Placerville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Boise County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84001029 in Record Group 79.
Boise County	All 4 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.