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Photograph of Beverly Ranch
Photograph by Bruceherwig, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Beverly Ranch

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1899.

From the record

“Beverly Ranch is a historic orange grove located at 923 West Fern Avenue in Redlands, California. Will and Elizabeth Eddy established the grove in 1888; after Will's death, Elizabeth married John Fisk, and the couple built the grove's main house in 1890.”

Wikipedia article Beverly Ranch, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 98 National Register listings published here for San Bernardino County · listed in 2004 · 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, 1 site, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 923 W. Fern Ave., Redlands, 92373
  • When was it listed? February 2004
  • Category. building
  • Census division. San Bernardino
  • Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
  • National Register reference number. 04000018 - 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

1899 to 1996

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 97 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Beverly Ranch, surveyed 1996
Topographic sheet covering Beverly Ranch, surveyed 1899

Fires near this property

675 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 675 fires within 5 miles of Beverly Ranch between 1992 and 2020, burning about 11,886 acres in total. 6 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/undetermined306
Equipment and vehicle use153
Arson/incendiarism82
Misuse of fire by a minor51
Smoking36
Debris and open burning23
Recreation and ceremony8
Natural6
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Power generation/transmission/distribution5

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 1996Railroad operations and maintenance293 acresSan Bernardino UnitCANYON
8 September 2012Natural57 acresCalifornia Desert DistrictGREENSPOT
8 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreSan Bernardino UnitGOLFBALL
7 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Bernardino Unitnot named
7 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresRiverside UnitCHAMOMILE INC
5 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Bernardino UnitPALM AV / 9TH ST 3
4 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Bernardino Unitnot named
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresRiverside UnitREDLANDS

Every fire recorded in San Bernardino 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 Beverly Ranch: 10 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Mercury. 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
City CreekMercuryOccurrence
Alabama Street PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Old Webster PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pacific Rock and Gravel CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Plunge Creek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
RedlandsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Redlands PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Redlands PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Redlands Pit No. 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Redlands Pit No. 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in San Bernardino County

Storms near this property

2 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Redlands, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1998 and 2004: 1 heavy rain, 1 flash flood. The reports record 4 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
November 1998Heavy RainRedlands4 hurtno account filed
October 2004Flash FloodRedlands$700,000Water overflowed the banks of the Mill Creek Zanja flood channel, causing an estimated $700,000 in damage to the flood channel and surrounding areas near Sylvan Park and the University of Redlands.

Every storm recorded in San Bernardino 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Smiley Park Historic District0.6 miles1994
A. K. Smiley Public Library0.7 miles1976
US Post Office-Redlands Main0.8 miles1985
Kimberly Crest1.0 miles1996
City Transfer and Storage Company Warehouse1.0 miles2023
Redlands Santa Fe Depot District1.1 miles1991

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 04000018 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.