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National Register of Historic Places listings in California facts for kids

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

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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.


Contents: NRHP lists by county 
Alameda - Alpine - Amador - Butte - Calaveras - Colusa - Contra Costa - Del Norte - El Dorado - Fresno - Glenn - Humboldt - Imperial - Inyo - Kern - Kings - Lake - Lassen - Los Angeles: (city) - (Pasadena) - (remainder of county) - Madera - Marin - Mariposa - Mendocino - Merced - Modoc - Mono - Monterey - Napa - Nevada - Orange - Placer - Plumas - Riverside - Sacramento - San Benito - San Bernardino - San Diego - San Francisco - San Joaquin - San Luis Obispo - San Mateo - Santa Barbara - Santa Clara - Santa Cruz - Shasta - Sierra - Siskiyou - Solano - Sonoma - Stanislaus - Sutter - Tehama - Trinity - Tulare - Tuolumne - Ventura - Yolo - Yuba

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.

SteinbeckHouse
John Steinbeck House, Salinas
Donner Party Memorial
Donner Camp, Truckee
BalboaPark BotanicBuilding
Balboa Park, San Diego
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
Los Angeles: Duplicates (2)
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 Tower and Columbus Statue
Coit Memorial Tower, San Francisco
Old Borges Ranch (Walnut Creek, CA)
Old Borges Ranch, Walnut Creek
Auburn California courthouse
Old Auburn Historic District
1907 First Christian Church
First Christian Church of Rialto

See also

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