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Photograph of Greystone Villa-Cabin 18
Photograph by Marielupdegrove, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Greystone Villa-Cabin 18

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.

From the record

“Greystone Villa, Cabin 18, is a historic building located in the Santa Ana Mountains within Cleveland National Forest, in Orange County, Southern California. It is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.”

Wikipedia article Greystone Villa, Cabin 18, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 136 National Register listings published here for Orange County · listed in 2002 · 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 2 buildingss, 2 objectss as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Greystone Villa--Cabin 18 - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. Sievers Canyon, Trabuco Ranger District, Cleveland National Forest
  • When was it listed? March 2002
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Mission Viejo
  • Architectural style. rustic architecture
  • National Register reference number. 02000151 - 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 1997

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Greystone Villa-Cabin 18, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet covering Greystone Villa-Cabin 18, surveyed 1901

Fires near this property

115 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 115 fires within 5 miles of Greystone Villa-Cabin 18 between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,199 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 13 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
Equipment and vehicle use46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Recreation and ceremony18
Arson/incendiarism13
Natural4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Debris and open burning1
Fireworks1

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
4 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresCleveland National ForestORTEGA_3
4 September 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCleveland National ForestLUCAS
30 September 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCleveland National ForestCAL TRANS
30 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCleveland National ForestCARRILLO
28 September 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCleveland National ForestVERDUGO
27 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresCleveland National ForestFALLS
27 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreRiverside UnitSTATE-1518
25 September 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCleveland National ForestSAN

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Greystone Villa-Cabin 18: 4 prospects, 4 past producers, 4 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Uranium, Thorium, Clay. 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
Blue GooseGold, SilverPast Producer
Joker and Catherine ProspectGold, Copper, ZincProspect
Lucas Canyon QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, GranitePast Producer
Bell Canyon ProspectClayOccurrence
Crow Canyon PitClayPast Producer
ProspectClayProspect
San Juan Canyon ProspectUranium, ThoriumProspect
Unnamed ClaimsUranium, ThoriumOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectGoldProspect
Unnamed Uranium ClaimsUranium, ThoriumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Orange County

Maps showing this location

16 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 02000151 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Orange CountyAll 136 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.