Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. 21 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1894.
From the record
“The Azusa Civic Center is the center of city government in Azusa, California, a city located to the northeast of Los Angeles. The Mission/Spanish Revival buildings were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.”
Wikipedia article Azusa Civic Center, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 616 National Register listings published here for Los Angeles County · listed in 2002 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.02000034- 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
1894 to 1995
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
101 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
18941995
Fires near this property
460 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 460 fires within 5 miles of Azusa Civic Center
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 21,426 acres in total. None started naturally. 82 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
213
Arson/incendiarism
82
Equipment and vehicle use
60
Smoking
34
Misuse of fire by a minor
25
Recreation and ceremony
21
Debris and open burning
13
Fireworks
7
Power generation/transmission/distribution
5
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
9 September 2008
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
8 September 2006
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
17 acres
Angeles National Forest
GUN
8 September 1998
Misuse of fire by a minor
1.0 acres
Angeles National Forest
GABRIEL
7 September 1994
Arson/incendiarism
5.0 acres
Angeles National Forest
DUARTE
6 September 2005
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
5 September 2009
Equipment and vehicle use
1.0 acres
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
5 September 2009
Equipment and vehicle use
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
5 September 2006
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
50 workings within 5 miles of Azusa Civic Center: 39 past producers, 5 prospects, 4 producers, 2 occurrences.
4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Gold, Silver, Lead. 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
Azusa, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 4 flash flood, 2 wildfire, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail.
The reports record 28 injuries. 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.
The Williams Fire burned 38.094 acres of land in the Angeles National Forest. This fire, which was located about 25 miles north of Azusa, destroyed 77 structures, including 62 cabins. No reports on the number of possible injuries have been received.
The Curve Fire burned 20,857 acres of land in the Angeles National Forest. The Curve Fire, which was caused by candles from a ritual sacrifice, destroyed 73 structures and injured at least 14 people.
A local television station reported tornado like winds damaged 11 homes. Most of the damage was to roofs and fallen trees. No funnel cloud was sighted. Several cars sustained damage.
Strong thunderstorms produced heavy rain and flash flooding across east-central Los Angeles county. California Highway Patrol reported significant flooding and road closures along Interstate 10 and Interstate 605.
Heavy thunderstorm rains produced flash flooding along the San Gabriel River, just north of Azusa. One hundred hikers had to be rescued when the river overflowed its banks.
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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