Photograph of Thunderbird Lodge — Photograph by Michael Santella, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Whittell Estate

Built in 1938 (rustic architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“The Thunderbird Lodge, also known as the Whittell Estate, is a historic 6.51-acre (2.63 ha) waterfront estate located on the east shore of Lake Tahoe, in western Washoe County, Nevada.”
Wikipedia article Thunderbird Lodge (Lake Tahoe, Nevada), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 83 National Register listings published here for Washoe County · listed in 2000 · category: District · built in 1938, rustic architecture, by Frederic Joseph DeLongchamps.

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

The listing

Address. 5000 NV 28, Incline Village, 89451
When was it listed? October 2000
Category. district
Census division. Incline Village
When was it built? 1938
Architectural style. rustic architecture
Architect. Frederic Joseph DeLongchamps
National Register reference number. 00001207 - 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

75 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Whittell Estate between 1992 and 2020, burning about 397 acres in total. 29 started naturally. 3 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	29
Recreation and ceremony	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Smoking	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Arson/incendiarism	3
Debris and open burning	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
8 September 1995	Smoking	under an acre	Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit	SKUNK
5 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest	SPOONER
5 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit	TWENTY EIGHT
27 September 2005	Natural	under an acre	Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit	MARLETTE
25 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit	not named
25 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest	USFS 095
21 September 2003	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit	SWEETWATER
20 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit	SPOONER

Every fire recorded in Washoe 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.

Listed places nearby

4 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Cal-Vada Lodge Hotel	5.9 miles	1994
Withers Log House	6.2 miles	2000
Walter Cliff Ranch District	6.7 miles	1985
Twaddle-Pedroli Ranch	7.9 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00001207 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.

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.