National Register of Historic Places listings in California facts for kids

Buildings, sites, districts, and objects in California listed on the National Register of Historic Places:

There are more than 2,800 properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the 58 counties of California, including 145 designated as National Historic Landmarks.

Numbers of properties and districts by county

The following are approximate tallies of current listings in California on the National Register of Historic Places. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008, and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. There are frequent additions to the listings and occasional delistings and the counts here are not official. Also, the counts in this table exclude boundary increase and decrease listings which modify the area covered by an existing property or district and which carry a separate National Register reference number.

California State Capitol, Sacramento Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum John Steinbeck House, Salinas Donner Camp, Truckee Huntington Beach Municipal Pier Barker Dam, Twentynine Palms Balboa Park, San Diego Amargosa Opera House, Death Valley Junction Historic District

County # of Sites 1 Alameda 153 2 Alpine 2 3 Amador 21 4 Butte 27 5 Calaveras 16 6 Colusa 6 7 Contra Costa 45 8 Del Norte 14 9 El Dorado 18 10 Fresno 43 11 Glenn 2 12 Humboldt 54 13 Imperial 12 14 Inyo 17 15 Kern 24 16 Kings 4 17 Lake 7 18 Lassen 7 19.1 Los Angeles: Los Angeles (city) 237 19.2 Los Angeles: Pasadena 125 19.3 Los Angeles: Other 176 19.4 Los Angeles: Duplicates (2) 19.5 Los Angeles: Total 536 20 Madera 4 21 Marin 44 22 Mariposa 43 23 Mendocino 42 24 Merced 15 25 Modoc 18 26 Mono 5 27 Monterey 59 28 Napa 85 29 Nevada 23 30 Orange 122 31 Placer 33 32 Plumas 5 33 Riverside 84 34 Sacramento 97 35 San Benito 15 36 San Bernardino 66 37 San Diego 144 38 San Francisco 188 39 San Joaquin 35 40 San Luis Obispo 36 41 San Mateo 60 42 Santa Barbara 44 43 Santa Clara 113 44 Santa Cruz 47 45 Shasta 29 46 Sierra 12 47 Siskiyou 18 48 Solano 28 49 Sonoma 66 50 Stanislaus 24 51 Sutter 2 52 Tehama 10 53 Trinity 5 54 Tulare 36 55 Tuolumne 34 56 Ventura 36 57 Yolo 25 58 Yuba 11 (duplicates) (12) Total: 2,759

Coit Memorial Tower, San Francisco Ahwahnee Hotel, Yosemite National Park Old Borges Ranch, Walnut Creek Pasadena Civic Center District Muir Woods National Monument, Mill Valley Old Auburn Historic District First Christian Church of Rialto Santa Barbara Mission

See also

In Spanish: Anexo:Registro Nacional de Lugares Históricos en California para niños