Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
“The Withers Log House, at 344 Wassou in Crystal Bay, Nevada, is a historic house that was built in 1931. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.”
Wikipedia article Withers Log House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 83 National Register listings published here for Washoe County · listed in 2000 · category: Building.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 232 fires within 5 miles of Withers Log House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,228 acres in total. 26 started naturally. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 82 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 49 |
| Smoking | 27 |
| Natural | 26 |
| Debris and open burning | 17 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 11 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 10 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nevada-Yuba-Placer Unit | CUTTHROAT |
| 8 September 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit | BEAVER 3 |
| 7 September 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit | BEAVER |
| 6 September 1997 | Smoking | under an acre | Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit | CANTERBURY |
| 4 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit | PATH |
| 4 September 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit | NATIONAL |
| 3 September 2018 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit | GRIFF |
| 29 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit | ZIMBA |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Withers Log House: 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold Prospect | Gold | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Mine | Gold | Prospect |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crystal Bay, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2017 and 2025: 5 heavy rain, 1 flood, 1 flash flood. 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 2025 | Flash Flood | Crystal Bay | - | Flooding was reported throughout Incline Village, with multiple reports of closed roads. Upwards of 2.22 inches of rain had fallen over the area. |
| November 2024 | Heavy Rain | Crystal Bay | - | A trained Spotter located 1.0 mi NNW of Incline Village, NV, and a COCORAHS station (NV-WH-74 Reno) located 3.0 mi E of Verdi, NV, reported 24hr rainfall storm totals of 0.60 inches, and 0.42 inches respectively. |
| November 2023 | Heavy Rain | Crystal Bay | - | A CoCoRahs station (NV-WH-161-Incline Village) located 1.3 mi S of Crystal Bay, CA, and a CO-OP observer station (INVN2) located in 1.2 mi E of Incline Village, NV, reported 24 hour rainfall storm totals of 0.60 inches and 0.55 inches respectively. |
| December 2019 | Heavy Rain | Crystal Bay | - | Mesonet station EW6293 1 mile southwest of Crystal Bay reported 1.75 inches of rainfall in a 48-hour period from 6 December 2015PST to 8 December 2015PST at an elevation of 6302 feet MSL. |
| July 2018 | Heavy Rain | Crystal Bay | - | Mesonet station KNXN2, 1 mile north of Incline Village (elevation 7568 feet) reported 1.59 inches of rainfall during a 3-hour period from 12 July 1519PST to 1819PST. |
| July 2018 | Heavy Rain | Crystal Bay | - | A trained weather spotter 1 mile north-northwest of Incline Village reported 0.57 inches of rainfall in a 1-hour period from 12 July 1756PST to 1856PST. |
| February 2017 | Flood | Crystal Bay | - | Twelve to 16 inches of water was running over Mt Rose Highway in the Tahoe Meadows area (near the highway summit) on the morning of the 8th. The highway was closed between Incline Village and the summit until the afternoon of the 9th due to the flooding. |
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Cal-Vada Lodge Hotel | 0.7 miles | 1994 |
 | Whittell Estate | 6.2 miles | 2000 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 00000341 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Washoe County | All 83 listed properties in this county. |
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