Built in 1935. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.
From the record
“The Cal-Vada Lodge Hotel is a historic hotel in Crystal Bay, Nevada, United States, at the California-Nevada border at the north end of Lake Tahoe, is a Bungalow/craftsman-style hotel that was built in 1935. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.”
Wikipedia article Cal-Vada Lodge Hotel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 83 National Register listings published here for Washoe County · listed in 1994 · category: Building · built in 1935.
National Register reference number.94000551- 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
231 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 231 fires within 5 miles of Cal-Vada Lodge Hotel
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,228 acres in total. 24 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
79
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
48
Smoking
32
Natural
24
Debris and open burning
18
Equipment and vehicle use
10
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
2 workings within 5 miles of Cal-Vada Lodge Hotel: 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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