Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1942.
From the record
“Goleta Depot is a train station building in Goleta, California constructed by the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1901, as part of the completion of the Coast Route linking Los Angeles and San Francisco. It is a Southern Pacific standard design Two Story Combination Depot No. 22.”
Wikipedia article Goleta Depot, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 38 National Register listings published here for Santa Barbara County · listed in 2002 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.01001457- 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
1942 to 1995
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
53 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19421995
Fires near this property
100 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Goleta Depot
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 14,859 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/undetermined
58
Equipment and vehicle use
24
Power generation/transmission/distribution
6
Debris and open burning
5
Recreation and ceremony
3
Arson/incendiarism
2
Fireworks
1
Other causes
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
8 September 2011
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
2.0 acres
Santa Barbara County Fire Department
not named
6 September 2011
Equipment and vehicle use
under an acre
Los Padres National Forest
GAP
30 September 2017
Power generation/transmission/distribution
under an acre
Los Padres National Forest
TROUT
29 September 2001
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Los Padres National Forest
PEDRO
28 September 2019
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Los Padres National Forest
WINDY
25 September 2017
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
2,000 acres
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
22 September 2013
Equipment and vehicle use
under an acre
Los Padres National Forest
VAN
12 September 2007
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1.0 acres
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
3 workings within 5 miles of Goleta Depot: 2 past producers, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Dimension. 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
Goleta, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 3 flash flood, 2 flood, 2 debris flow.
The reports record 1 death. 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.
Heavy rainfall generated flash flooding from Maria Ygnacio Creek. One man was swept down the creek and drowned. His body was found in the creek near the intersection of San Marcos Road and Via Parva.
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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