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Photograph of Atascadero Printery
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Atascadero Printery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.

From the record

“The Atascadero Printery is a historic building in Atascadero, California. Built in 1915 to house a printing company, it later was home to a junior college, a prep school, a Masonic Temple, a school district office, a sheriff's substation, a live-in studio for a photographer, a karate studio, a commercial business, and community events.”

Wikipedia article Atascadero Printery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 32 National Register listings published here for San Luis Obispo County · listed in 2004 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 6351 Olmeda, Atascadero, 93422
  • When was it listed? January 2004
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Atascadero
  • National Register reference number. 00001368 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1897 to 1995

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Atascadero Printery, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet covering Atascadero Printery, surveyed 1897

Fires near this property

342 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 342 fires within 5 miles of Atascadero Printery between 1992 and 2020, burning about 843 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 7 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined147
Equipment and vehicle use137
Debris and open burning26
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Smoking7
Arson/incendiarism7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks1
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution2.1 acresSan Luis Obispo UnitEL CAMINO REAL SLO_CO
8 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Luis Obispo UnitBARBARA
8 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresSan Luis Obispo UnitTEMPLETON
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Luis Obispo UnitVEGFIRE
6 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
6 September 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Luis Obispo UnitSLU 2825
5 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSan Luis Obispo UnitROCKY
4 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresSan Luis Obispo UnitPOCO

Every fire recorded in San Luis Obispo County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Atascadero Printery: 9 past producers, 8 producers, 1 prospect. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Manganese, Chromium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Alfred H. Ruedy ChromeChromiumProspect
Bluebird MineManganeseProducer
Bluebird MineManganesePast Producer1918
Davis QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Millhollin PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Rocky Canyon QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in San Luis Obispo County

Storms near this property

2 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Atascadero, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2001 and 2023: 1 thunderstorm wind, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2023Flash FloodAtascadero-Heavy rainfall produced flash flooding near the community of Atascadero in San Luis Obispo county. California Highway Patrol reported mud and rocks across Highway 41.
January 2001Thunderstorm WindAtascadero-no account filed

Every storm recorded in San Luis Obispo County

Maps showing this location

12 surveys

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.

Listed places nearby

1 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Administration Building, Atascadero Colony0.2 miles1977

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 00001368 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
San Luis Obispo CountyAll 32 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.
  • 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.