BlockBefore
Photograph of Historic Adobe Building
Photograph by Bobak Ha'Eri, CC BY 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Mountain View Adobe

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. 22 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.

From the record

“The Historic Adobe Building, also known as the Mountain View Adobe, is a multi-purpose structure in Mountain View, California. The building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 28, 2002.”

Wikipedia article Mountain View Adobe, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 117 National Register listings published here for Santa Clara 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 listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 157 Moffett Blvd., Mountain View, 94043
  • When was it listed? October 2002
  • Category. building
  • Census division. San Jose
  • National Register reference number. 02001256 - 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

1897 to 1997

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 100 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Mountain View Adobe, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet covering Mountain View Adobe, surveyed 1897

Fires near this property

147 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 147 fires within 5 miles of Mountain View Adobe between 1993 and 2020, burning about 97 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 9 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/undetermined74
Equipment and vehicle use22
Smoking17
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Arson/incendiarism9
Debris and open burning8
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Natural1

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
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 September 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
5 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSanta Clara Unitnot named
30 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
30 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
27 September 2010Smokingunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
26 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSanta Clara Unitnot named
26 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named

Every fire recorded in Santa Clara County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Mountain View Adobe: 10 producers, 3 past producers, 2 unknowns. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Salt. 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
Bay EvaporatorsSaltProducer
Adobe Creek QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Adobe Creek QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Bahr & Ledoyen, Inc.StoneProducer
Bahr & Ledoyen, Inc.StonePast Producer
Mt. View Crushing PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Near QuarryStoneProducer
Neary Rock QuarryStoneProducer
Page Mill QuarryStoneProducer
Patton MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Santa Clara County

Storms near this property

6 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mountain View, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 3 flood, 2 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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
February 2025FloodMountain View-Two to three inches of standing water due to a plugged drain were reported on northbound Highway 85 just south of Fremont Avenue.
March 2024FloodMountain View-Vehicle stuck in floodwaters blocking the slow lane of the offramp from southbound California Route 85 to Fremont Avenue.
March 2024FloodMountain View-Roadway flooding reported at southbound California Route 85 between El Camino and Fremont Avenue.
March 2020HailMountain View-Small hail reported in Mountain View.
March 2020HailMountain View-Video on twitter shows small hail falling in Mountain View.
May 1998Funnel CloudMountain View-Funnel cloud passed over El Camino Real in Mountain View CA

Every storm recorded in Santa Clara County

Maps showing this location

22 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

6 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 02001256 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Santa Clara CountyAll 117 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.