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One of 616 National Register listings published here for Los Angeles County · listed in 2009 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Killingsworth, Brady, & Smith
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1896.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 3827-3837 Long Beach Blvd., Long Beach, 90807
- When was it listed? July 2009
- Category. building
- Census division. Long Beach-Lakewood
- Architectural style. International Style
- National Register reference number. 09000515 - 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 1901The ground this property stands on, surveyed 5 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Fires near this property
269 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 269 fires within 5 miles of Killingsworth, Brady, & Smith between 2005 and 2020, burning about 3,791 acres in total. None started naturally. 22 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 | 176 |
| Smoking | 29 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 22 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 21 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 11 |
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 6 September 2009 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 6 September 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 30 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 28 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 27 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 26 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 25 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Los Angeles County Fire Department | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Killingsworth, Brady, & Smith: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Limestone, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Empire Quarry | Limestone, Dimension | Producer | ||
| R Loynes | Clay | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| R. Loynes | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Torrance Brick Co - Torr Plant No 1 | Clay | Past Producer | Sedimentary |
Storms near this property
10 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Long Beach, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1998 and 2004: 3 flood, 2 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 funnel cloud. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 1998 | Tornado (F1) | Long Beach | 1 hurt | A small tornado swept through eastern sections of Long Beach. The tornado developed over Los Altos Park and travelled northeast to Studebaker Road. The most significant damage occurred to a Lucky's Supermarket where a 60 foot by 60 foot section of their roof collapsed. Also...Cubberley Elementary School lost a section of its roof. Other minor damage occurred from fallen trees and power lines. One minor injury was reported. |
| March 2002 | High Wind | Long Beach | - | Gusty northwest winds between 30 and 40 mph knocked a 16 foot boat into the breakwater in Long Beach Harbor. No one was injured, but the boat sank. |
| October 2000 | Flood | Long Beach | - | The combination of heavy rain and clogged storm drains resulted in urban flooding in the community of Long Beach. The Long Beach Freeway (Interstate 710) was closed for 6 hours between Willow Street and Pacific Coast Highway. |
| March 1999 | Flood | Long Beach | - | Moderate rainfall produced local street flooding in the Long Beach area. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Long Beach | - | Strong thunderstorm winds produced damage across parts of the Long Beach area. At a car dealership, the roof of a couple of service bays was blown off. Next door, a 600 square-foot section of roof was torn off a aircraft instrument company. |
| March 1998 | Funnel Cloud | Long Beach | - | A spotter in the community of Long Beach reported a funnel cloud. |
| December 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Long Beach | - | no account filed |
| March 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Long Beach | - | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Flood | Long Beach | - | no account filed |
| February 1998 | Funnel Cloud | Long Beach | - | no account filed |
Maps showing this location
16 surveysUnited 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.
- 1896 USGS Downey quadrangle1:62500
- 1899 USGS Downey quadrangle1:62500
- 1901 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
- 1902 USGS Downey quadrangle1:62500 - 9 printings
- 1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1925 USGS Clearwater quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1942 USGS Downey quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Downey quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1943 USGS San Pedro quadrangle1:125000
- 1949 USGS Long Beach quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
- 1949 USGS Long Beach quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Long Beach quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Long Beach quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Long Beach quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Long Beach quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
- 1981 USGS Long Beach quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Jennie A. Reeve House | 1.3 miles | 1984 |
 | Los Cerritos Ranch House | 1.4 miles | 1970 |
 | Dominguez Ranch Adobe | 3.6 miles | 1976 |
 | Long Beach Professional Building | 3.7 miles | 2005 |
 | Green-Rankin-Bembridge House | 3.7 miles | 2005 |
 | Joseph and Carrie Torrey House | 3.9 miles | 2018 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 09000515 in Record Group 79. |
| Los Angeles County | All 616 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.