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Integratron

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1953.

From the record

One of 98 National Register listings published here for San Bernardino County · listed in 2018 · category: Structure.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • Address. 2477 Belfield Blvd., Landers, 92285
  • When was it listed? April 2018
  • Category. structure
  • Census division. Twentynine Palms-Yucca Valley
  • National Register reference number. 100002317 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1953 to 1982

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 29 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Integratron, surveyed 1982
Topographic sheet covering Integratron, surveyed 1953

Fires near this property

25 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Integratron between 1992 and 2020, burning about 121 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined12
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural2
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
21 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCalifornia Desert DistrictRICHY
12 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictPINE
4 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictDUMP
29 August 1998Smokingunder an acreSan Bernardino UnitSMALL SPOT
17 August 2015Naturalunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictDUMP
4 June 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Bernardino UnitHOPI
29 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.1 acresCalifornia Desert DistrictRECHE
26 June 1998Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresCalifornia Desert DistrictVALLIHI

Every fire recorded in San Bernardino County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Integratron: 2 occurrences, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Niobium (Columbium), Tantalum, REE, Thorium. 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
Rock Corral AreaNiobium (Columbium), Tantalum, REE, ThoriumOccurrenceAllanite, Euxenite
Vivian ProspectManganeseOccurrence
Vivian ProspectManganeseUnknown1918

Every working recorded in San Bernardino County

Storms near this property

10 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Landers, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 2011 and 2022: 7 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 lightning, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2018Flash FloodLanders$500,000Major flash flooding occurred in the Morongo Basin. A spotter recorded 2.27 inches of rain between midnight and 630 AM PDT. Many roads were flooded or washed out, and numerous vehicles, including a fire truck, were either washed off the roads or stuck in flood waters and/or mud. Three water lines were broken, leaving many customers without water for up to 36 hours.
October 2015LightningLanders$10,000Lightning knocked out power to over 4000 customers and set fire to a palm tree between Landers and Twentynine Palms.
August 2013Flash FloodLanders$5,000Six to 12 inches of water and mud flowed across Highway 247 at Reche Road and also Belfield Blvd. at Encantado Blvd. in Landers. One vehicle was washed away.
October 2015Flash FloodLanders$2,000A vehicle was stuck in a flooded wash on Winter Road.
August 2022Flash FloodLanders$1,000The intersection of Lilac and Acoma was flooded. The spotter measured 0.66 of rain in 25 minutes.
June 2015Flash FloodLanders$1,000Water, rocks, and debris flowed over Linn Road and Belfield Boulevard. A nearby spotter reported half an inch of rain in less than half an hour.
July 2015Flash FloodLanders$1,000Water one foot deep flowed over Reche Road at Sunny Vista.
August 2012Flash FloodLanders$1,000Six inches of water along with rocks and debris flowed across Avalon Avenue between Winters and Aberdeen.
July 2015Tornado (EF0)Landers-Two landspouts were photographed in open desert just north of Landers. No damage occurred.
September 2011HailLanders-no account filed

Every storm recorded in San Bernardino County

Maps showing this location

9 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 100002317 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.