Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.
From the record
“The Cucamonga Service Station is a historic gas and automobile service station located in Rancho Cucamonga, California. Local lore claims it was built in 1915 by Henry Klusman, who built many of the early buildings in Cucamonga, but there is no documented evidence for this.”
Wikipedia article Cucamonga Service Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 98 National Register listings published here for San Bernardino County · listed in 2018 · category: Building.
National Register reference number. 100002675 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1897 to 1982
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
18971982
Fires near this property
202 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 202 fires within 5 miles of Cucamonga Service Station
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,552 acres in total. 1 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
114
Equipment and vehicle use
31
Arson/incendiarism
22
Smoking
15
Misuse of fire by a minor
13
Debris and open burning
4
Recreation and ceremony
2
Natural
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 2011
Arson/incendiarism
under an acre
San Bernardino Unit
not named
9 September 1994
Misuse of fire by a minor
110 acres
San Bernardino National Forest
AMETHYST
6 September 2006
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
6 September 1995
Misuse of fire by a minor
1.0 acres
San Bernardino Unit
BANYAN
5 September 1992
Arson/incendiarism
2.0 acres
San Bernardino Unit
SUMMIT
4 September 2020
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1.0 acres
San Bernardino Unit
not named
30 September 2010
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
29 September 2006
Misuse of fire by a minor
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 Cucamonga Service Station: 4 past producers, 2 occurrences.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Tungsten. 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
Rancho Cucamonga, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 3 flash flood, 2 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 wildfire.
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.
Swiftwater rescue of woman in Cucamonga Wash at Airport Drive. The Ontario Fire Department reported the woman received minor injuries. Rainfall rates of 0.5 to 0.7 inch from Fullerton to Rancho Cucamonga between 7-8 am. The main IVT frontal band moved through Southern California 7-10 AM.
Heavy rain associated with residual moisture from post-tropical cyclone Kay occurred during the afternoon on September 12 in northern portions of the Inland Empire, particularly north of Rancho Cucamonga.||The following are measured rainfall:||Mesonet station LRAC1, 5.5 NE Rancho Cucamonga: 2.83 inch.||Mesonet station DECC1, 4.2 N Rancho Cucamonga: 2.75 inch.||Mesonet station DACC1, 3.9 NE Rancho Cucamonga: 1.97 inch.
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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