Photograph of SS Tahoe — Photograph by Unknown, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

TAHOE (Shipwreck)

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

“SS Tahoe was a steamship that operated on Lake Tahoe at the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th. Scuttled in 1940, the wreck presently lies in 400 feet (120 m) of water off Glenbrook, Nevada.”
Wikipedia article SS Tahoe, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Douglas County · listed in 2004 · category: Structure.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Lake Tahoe, Glenbrook
When was it listed? February 2004
Category. structure
Census division. Zephyr Cove
National Register reference number. 04000026 - 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

79 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of TAHOE (Shipwreck) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 15 acres in total. 38 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	38
Recreation and ceremony	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Smoking	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Arson/incendiarism	3
Debris and open burning	2
Other causes	1
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
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	Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit	not named
25 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest	USFS 095
20 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit	SPOONER

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this property

7 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glenbrook, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 6 heavy rain, 1 hail. 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 2024	Heavy Rain	Glenbrook	-	A mesonet station NSPO located on Spooner Summit, CA, reported a total rainfall amount of 1.06 inches.
December 2023	Heavy Rain	Glenbrook	-	Mesonet station (NSPO) located at Spooner Summit, NV (DRI), reported a 24hr rainfall storm total of 0.86 inches.
September 2023	Heavy Rain	Glenbrook	-	A CO-OP Observer located 1.0 mi S of Glenbrook, NV, reported a storm total rainfall amount of 0.67 inches.
March 2019	Heavy Rain	Glenbrook	-	Mesonet station NSPO at Spooner Summit reported 0.78 inches of rainfall from 27 March 0830PST to 28 March 0830PST. Mesonet elevation 7040 feet MSL.
November 2018	Heavy Rain	Glenbrook	-	CO-OP Observer in Glenbrook reported 0.60 inches of rainfall from 21 November 1100PST to 22 November 1100PST at an elevation of 6542 feet MSL.
November 2018	Heavy Rain	Glenbrook	-	Mesonet NSPO, Spooner Summit, reported 0.63 inches of rainfall in a 24-hour period from 21 November 1730PST to 22 November 1730PST. Mesonet elevation 7040 feet MSL.
July 2002	Hail	Glenbrook	-	One inch hail

Every storm recorded in Douglas 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

2 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Lake Shore House	0.8 miles	1979
	Lena N. Gale Cabin	6.1 miles	2001

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04000026 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Douglas County	All 24 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.
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.