Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1921.
From the record
“Joseph is a historic church building located at 1109 K Street in Los Banos, California. Built in 1923, the church was designed in the Romanesque Revival style, a common style for church buildings.”
Wikipedia article Church of St. Joseph (Los Banos, California), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 15 National Register listings published here for Merced County · listed in 2004 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.04000330- 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
1921 to 1983
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
62 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19211983
Fires near this property
530 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 530 fires within 5 miles of Church of St. Joseph
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,030 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 23 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
338
Equipment and vehicle use
95
Debris and open burning
43
Arson/incendiarism
23
Smoking
13
Misuse of fire by a minor
7
Recreation and ceremony
5
Natural
3
Other causes
2
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
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 2017
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
6 workings within 5 miles of Church of St. Joseph: 4 past producers, 2 producers.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Los Banos, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 funnel cloud, 3 flood, 2 tornado.
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.
An F0 tornado developed as a severe thunderstorm was dissipating in rural, west Merced County just south of Los Banos. Damage was essentially limited to stored grain/fodder for cattle and some fences. Tornado was reported by several witnesses with its last point 3 miles farther south than its initial touchdown point. The path was from the NNW to SSE.
The 152 Fire was of unknown origin and burned 2750 acres in Western Merced County. The cost of the fire was unknown but no structures were lost nor were there any injuries.
Funnel cloud reported by Merced County Sheriff in addition to lightning activity with a thunderstorm. This storm eventually moved southeastward and prompted issuance of a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Northwest Fresno County just a few miles to the southeast.
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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