Built in 1925. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1889.
From the record
“Ainsley House is a 1925 California Arts and Crafts house in Campbell, California, built in the style of an English Tudor Cotswold cottage. The house and accompanying carriage house were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.”
Wikipedia article Ainsley House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 117 National Register listings published here for Santa Clara County · listed in 2005 · category: Building · built in 1925.
National Register reference number.05001086- 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
1889 to 1978
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
18891978
Fires near this property
180 since 1994
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 180 fires within 5 miles of John Colpitts Ainsley House No. 3
between 1994 and 2020, burning about 53 acres in total. None started naturally. 25 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
100
Arson/incendiarism
25
Equipment and vehicle use
19
Smoking
14
Misuse of fire by a minor
11
Power generation/transmission/distribution
6
Debris and open burning
4
Recreation and ceremony
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 2018
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
6 September 2008
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
30 September 2016
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
3 September 2016
Misuse of fire by a minor
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
29 September 2019
Equipment and vehicle use
under an acre
Santa Clara Unit
not named
28 September 2017
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
25 September 2019
Equipment and vehicle use
under an acre
Santa Clara Unit
not named
25 September 2018
Equipment and vehicle use
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
19 workings within 5 miles of John Colpitts Ainsley House No. 3: 13 past producers, 3 producers, 3 unknowns.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Mercury, Stone, Clay. 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
Campbell, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 2010 and 2025: 16 flood, 1 lightning.
The reports record 1 death. 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.
As an arrest warrant was being served at a home in Campbell, a man ran into his backyard and hopped over a fence, where a cement drainage ditch was running at full capacity. The man tried to jump over the ditch but got caught in the water and dragged downstream. The Police Officers saw him try to keep his head above water, but he went under and drowned.
Roadway flooding reported on southbound State Route 17 right before the offramp onto Hamilton Avenue, with the offramp reported as almost completely flooded.
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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