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Photograph of First Christian Church of Rialto
Photograph by Oleknutlee, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

First Christian Church of Rialto

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. 19 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1896.

From the record

“First Christian Church of Rialto is a historic church located at 201 N. The church was built from 1906 to 1907 to serve Rialto's First Christian Church, which was founded in 1905.”

Wikipedia article First Christian Church of Rialto, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 98 National Register listings published here for San Bernardino County · listed in 2003 · 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. 201 N. Riverside Ave., Rialto, 92376
  • When was it listed? February 2003
  • Category. building
  • Census division. San Bernardino
  • National Register reference number. 03000037 - 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

1896 to 1982

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering First Christian Church of Rialto, surveyed 1982
Topographic sheet covering First Christian Church of Rialto, surveyed 1896

Fires near this property

695 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 695 fires within 5 miles of First Christian Church of Rialto between 1992 and 2020, burning about 22,965 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 114 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/undetermined450
Arson/incendiarism114
Equipment and vehicle use51
Misuse of fire by a minor32
Smoking23
Debris and open burning12
Recreation and ceremony5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1

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 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
9 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
9 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 September 1993Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresSan Bernardino UnitRAILROAD
6 September 2020Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSan Bernardino Unitnot named

Every fire recorded in San Bernardino County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 26 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 26 workings within 5 miles of First Christian Church of Rialto: 21 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Calcium. 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
Colton Cement PlantLimestone, General, Calcium, Cement RockProducer
Lytle Creek Pit ASand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Raney Borrow PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Slover Mountain QuarryCalcium, Marble, DimensionPast Producer
Calif. Portland Cement Co.Limestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Colton DepositLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
Bloomington PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Colton Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Colton Plant and QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Fontana PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in San Bernardino County

Storms near this property

9 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rialto, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2006: 4 wildfire, 2 strong wind, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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
August 1998Strong WindRialto1 hurtno account filed
July 2001WildfireRialto$350,000no account filed
December 2004Flash FloodRialto$40,000Glen Helen Parkway and Lytle Creek Road were washed out by heavy runoff.
June 2001WildfireRialto$27,000no account filed
October 2004Flash FloodRialto$5,000Water and mud rushed across Lytle Creek Road just north of Glen Helen Parkway.
April 2006LightningRialto$2,000Lightning caused minor damage to two homes and knocked out power in Rialto.
October 1999WildfireRialto-Santa Ana winds gusting to 40 mph rapidily spread a wild fire through rocky terrain along Lytle Creek Wash. About 40 acres were burned.
September 2001WildfireRialto-no account filed
May 1998Strong WindRialto-no account filed

Every storm recorded in San Bernardino County

Maps showing this location

19 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 03000037 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
San Bernardino CountyAll 98 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.