Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1896.
From the record
“Municipal Warehouse No. 1 is a six-story warehouse built in 1917 on the outermost point of land on the main channel at the Port of Los Angeles. It played an important part in the establishment of Los Angeles as a major center of international trade and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its role in the development of the region's international trade and commerce.”
Wikipedia article Municipal Warehouse No. 1, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 616 National Register listings published here for Los Angeles County · listed in 2000 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.00000386- 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.
Then and now
1896 to 1901
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
5 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
18961901
Fires near this property
48 since 2005
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Municipal Warehouse No. 1
between 2005 and 2020, burning about 274 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
23
Equipment and vehicle use
12
Smoking
6
Misuse of fire by a minor
4
Recreation and ceremony
2
Debris and open burning
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
6 September 2011
Equipment and vehicle use
under an acre
Los Angeles County Fire Department
not named
3 September 2006
Misuse of fire by a minor
5.0 acres
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
29 September 2008
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
28 September 2005
Equipment and vehicle use
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
7 August 2020
Equipment and vehicle use
1.0 acres
Los Angeles County Fire Department
not named
27 August 2009
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
230 acres
Los Angeles County Fire Department
PV
11 August 2005
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1.0 acres
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
8 July 2007
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
4 workings within 5 miles of Municipal Warehouse No. 1: 4 past producers.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Dolomite, Clay. 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
San Pedro, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1999 and 2026: 1 funnel cloud, 1 thunderstorm wind.
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.
United States Geological Survey topographic
sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then
testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
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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