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Photograph of San Timoteo Canyon Schoolhouse
Photograph by Bruceherwig, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

San Timoteo Canyon Schoolhouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.

From the record

“San Timoteo Canyon is a river valley canyon southeast of Redlands, in the far northwestern foothills of the San Jacinto Mountains in the Inland Empire region of Southern California.”

Wikipedia article San Timoteo Canyon, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 90 National Register listings published here for Riverside County · listed in 2001 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 31985 San Timoteo Canyon Rd., Redlands, 92373
  • When was it listed? January 2001
  • Category. building
  • Census division. San Gorgonio Pass
  • National Register reference number. 00001646 - 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

1901 to 1983

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering San Timoteo Canyon Schoolhouse, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet covering San Timoteo Canyon Schoolhouse, surveyed 1901

Fires near this property

961 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 961 fires within 5 miles of San Timoteo Canyon Schoolhouse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 32,492 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 115 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/undetermined398
Equipment and vehicle use249
Arson/incendiarism115
Misuse of fire by a minor68
Smoking68
Debris and open burning26
Railroad operations and maintenance10
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Recreation and ceremony8
Firearms and explosives use5
Natural5

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 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresRiverside UnitMCABEE AV MOVA
9 September 2019Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSan Bernardino UnitVALLEY VIEW MHP YUCAIPA_C
9 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictUNNAMED FIRE 2720
8 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Bernardino UnitWEST BOUND
8 September 1995Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSan Bernardino UnitRUTHERFORD
7 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRiverside UnitFREEWAY
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Bernardino UnitAVENUE H / CALIFORNIA 3
5 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSan Bernardino UnitSTEARNS ST /E COUNTY LINE

Every fire recorded in Riverside County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of San Timoteo Canyon Schoolhouse: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite. 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
Poway PitGraniteProducer
PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Unnamed Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Riverside County

Maps showing this location

14 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 00001646 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Riverside CountyAll 90 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.