Montecito Ranch House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

One of 148 National Register listings published here for San Diego County · listed in 2017 · category: Building.

Sources: 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. 1080 Montecito Way, Ramona, 92065
When was it listed? July 2017
Category. building
Census division. Ramona
National Register reference number. 100001284 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1903 to 1997

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Montecito Ranch House, surveyed 1997

Topographic sheet covering Montecito Ranch House, surveyed 1903

Fires near this property

691 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 691 fires within 5 miles of Montecito Ranch House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,761 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 65 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	312
Equipment and vehicle use	200
Arson/incendiarism	65
Misuse of fire by a minor	39
Debris and open burning	32
Recreation and ceremony	24
Smoking	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Natural	4
Other causes	1
Fireworks	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
8 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	San Diego Unit	SAN VICENTE
8 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	San Diego Unit	ROADSIDE
8 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	409 acres	California Desert District	CLEVENGER
7 September 1995	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	San Diego Unit	HUNTER
7 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	San Diego Unit	TENT
6 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	San Diego Unit	JULIAN 3
5 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	San Diego Unit	ROBERTSON
5 September 1994	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.5 acres	San Diego Unit	LA BREA

Every fire recorded in San Diego County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Montecito Ranch House: 6 past producers, 4 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Molybdenum, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Daley	Copper, Silver	Past Producer	Limonite, Malachite, Pyrite
Hatfield Creek Claim	Diamond	Unknown
Hatfield Creek Quarry	Stone	Producer
Hatfield Creek Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Moore Pit	Granite	Producer
Olive Street Pit	Granite	Producer
San Pasqual Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Woodward San Pasqual Operation	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Woodward Sand Co San Pasqual Opera	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Bour	Molybdenum	Occurrence	Ferrimolybdite, Molybdenite

Every working recorded in San Diego County

Storms near this property

28 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ramona, the town this property stands in, in 28 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 10 flash flood, 9 wildfire, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 debris flow. The reports record 13 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2002	Wildfire	Ramona	4 hurt	no account filed
August 1999	Wildfire	Ramona	3 hurt	A wild fire burned 300 acres. Three firefighters were slightly injured.
June 2001	Wildfire	Ramona	3 hurt	no account filed
August 2001	Wildfire	Ramona	3 hurt	no account filed
September 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Ramona	$60,000	A thunderstorm with heavy rain produced a severe microburst in downtown Ramona. Numerous trees were blown over or sustained damage, including a number of Eucalyptus trees along Main Street. Several power poles were blown over along Highway 78 just east of town and a few outbuildings sustained damaged. There was also damaged to signs, fencing, and even a public bench.
April 2004	Flash Flood	Ramona	$45,000	no account filed
March 2006	Tornado (F0)	Ramona	$25,000	This tornado touched down along highway 78 just northwest of Ramona before moving into a rural neighborhood on the outskirts of town. The tornado knocked downed dozens of trees, snapped a few pines in half, tossed a child's fort, damaged some solar panels, bent or distorted a couple of rolling garage doors, ripped off the metal roofing from a storage shed or barn, and blew off a number of tiles from a roof.
December 2004	Flash Flood	Ramona	$15,000	A resident of the San Diego Country Estates who's property is in the Cedar Fire burn area reported that 1.10 inches of rain fell in 40 minutes, resulting in a high velocity mudflow that traveled down the burned hills and through his yard.
February 2019	Flash Flood	Ramona	$10,000	Swift water rescue near Barona Indian Reservation on Wildcat Canyon road. Heavy rainfall of 4 to 6 inches occurred in about 12 hours.
January 2005	Flash Flood	Ramona	$10,000	no account filed
January 2005	Flash Flood	Ramona	$5,000	no account filed
January 2023	Debris Flow	Ramona	-	CalTrans report of a mudslide on Old Julian Highway by MM 4.5.
March 2023	Debris Flow	Ramona	-	The Department of Highways reported a large boulder blocking the southbound lanes of Highway 78.
March 2022	Heavy Rain	Ramona	-	Public report of rainfall of 1.17 inch, 1mi SSE of Ramona.
September 2022	Flash Flood	Ramona	-	Portions of Wildcat Canyon Rd on the Barona Reservation under 3-10 inches of running water due to heavy rainfall. Visibility reduced to 1/4 mile during rain.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Ramona	-	Reported branches down on roadway and small trees near San Vincente Road and Wildcat Canyon Road in south Ramona. Wind gusts nearby 40 to 45 mph on mesonet.
June 2015	Flash Flood	Ramona	-	CHP reported a second-hand report of flash flood wash out with a depth of 1.5 feet of soil across the pavement at Highland Valley Road and Highway 67 near Ramona, as well as a mud slide across roadway at Highland Valley Road and Archie Moore Road in Poway.
August 2014	Flash Flood	Ramona	-	Water up to 2 feet deep reported at the intersection of Aqua and 4th Streets.
September 2012	Flood	Ramona	-	Spotter SDG447 reported 0.84 inches of rain between 1430 and 1500 PST, which resulted in flooded roadways in the San Diego Country Estates area.
July 2005	Lightning	Ramona	-	Lightning ignited 3 fires on Orosco Ridge in the Ramona area. The fires burned 20 acres.
October 2004	Flash Flood	Ramona	-	Heavy rain caused Klondike Creek to overflow across a 25-30 ft section of Wildcat Canyon Road near San Diego Country Estates.
September 2005	Funnel Cloud	Ramona	-	no account filed
February 2004	Flash Flood	Ramona	-	no account filed
August 2003	Wildfire	Ramona	-	no account filed
May 2002	Wildfire	Ramona	-	no account filed
October 2001	Wildfire	Ramona	-	no account filed
July 2001	Wildfire	Ramona	-	no account filed
August 1998	Wildfire	Ramona	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in San Diego County

Maps showing this location

13 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.

1903 USGS Ramona quadrangle1:125000 - 6 printings
1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 2 quadrangle1:250000 - 5 printings
1942 USGS Ramona quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1947 USGS Ramona quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS San Pasqual quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
1956 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1965 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Borrego Valley quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1997 USGS San Pasqual quadrangle1:24000

Listed places nearby

4 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Ramona Main Street Colonnade	2.0 miles	2018
Ramona Town Hall	2.5 miles	1994
Theophile Verlaque House	2.6 miles	1991
Castle, The	4.0 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100001284 in Record Group 79.
San Diego County	All 148 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.