Hunt Center and Library

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019. 19 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1896.

From the record

One of 136 National Register listings published here for Orange County · listed in 2019 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 20 objectss, 2 buildingss, 1 site, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. 1645 W. Valencia Dr. & 201 S. Basque Ave., Fullerton, 92833
When was it listed? March 2019
Category. district
Census division. Anaheim-Santa Ana-Garden Grove
National Register reference number. 100003550 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1896 to 1983

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Hunt Center and Library, surveyed 1983

Topographic sheet covering Hunt Center and Library, surveyed 1896

Fires near this property

185 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 185 fires within 5 miles of Hunt Center and Library between 2005 and 2020, burning about 74 acres in total. None started naturally. 42 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	97
Arson/incendiarism	42
Smoking	14
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Misuse of fire by a minor	13
Debris and open burning	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2

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 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
5 September 2018	Arson/incendiarism	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
27 September 2005	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
26 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
25 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
25 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
24 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Los Angeles County Fire Department	not named

Every fire recorded in Orange 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 Hunt Center and Library: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
La Habra Sand & Gravel Co.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Lindauer & Sopns	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Orange County Brick & Tile Co.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Orange County

Storms near this property

7 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fullerton, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2000 and 2014: 2 heavy rain, 2 funnel cloud, 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
February 2003	Heavy Rain	Fullerton	1 hurt, $150,000	no account filed
January 2005	Heavy Rain	Fullerton	$15,000,000	no account filed
October 2000	Flood	Fullerton	$30,000	no account filed
December 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Fullerton	$20,000	Numerous trees blown down.
May 2014	Dust Devil	Fullerton	$6,000	Public reported a dust devil near Fullerton that came abruptly out of the west carrying large amounts of dust and leaves, and damaged portions of roof shingles on a few homes with estimated wind gusts of 60 mph.
January 2005	Funnel Cloud	Fullerton	-	no account filed
December 2004	Funnel Cloud	Fullerton	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Orange County

Maps showing this location

19 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.

1896 USGS Anaheim quadrangle1:62500
1898 USGS Anaheim quadrangle1:62500
1901 USGS Anaheim quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1901 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
1902 USGS Corona quadrangle1:125000 - 7 printings
1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1935 USGS Garden Grove quadrangle1:31680 - 3 printings
1942 USGS Anaheim quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1947 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS Anaheim quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Anaheim quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1965 USGS Anaheim quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Anaheim quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:100000

Listed places nearby

6 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
Muckenthaler House	0.8 miles	1980
Hugh Edgar Johnson House	1.4 miles	2021
Fullerton City Hall	1.5 miles	2003
Elephant Packing House	1.7 miles	1983
Phillip Ackley Stanton House	1.7 miles	1980
Fender's Radio Service	1.8 miles	2013

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100003550 in Record Group 79.
Orange County	All 136 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.