Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.
From the record
“The Thacher School Historic District is a historic district in Ventura County, California, in an unincorporated portion of the Ojai Valley. The Thacher School is one of the earliest private boarding schools in California.”
Wikipedia article Thacher School Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 39 National Register listings published here for Ventura County · listed in 2019 · category: District.
National Register reference number. 100003579 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1903 to 1995
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19031995
Fires near this property
42 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Thacher School Historic District
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,569 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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
14
Equipment and vehicle use
12
Arson/incendiarism
4
Misuse of fire by a minor
3
Other causes
3
Recreation and ceremony
3
Fireworks
1
Debris and open burning
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
13 September 2016
Other causes
under an acre
Los Padres National Forest
GRIDLEY
1 September 2008
Equipment and vehicle use
1.0 acres
Ventura County Fire Department
not named
3 August 1999
Equipment and vehicle use
under an acre
Los Padres National Forest
HORN
22 August 1992
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
7.0 acres
Los Padres National Forest
FRONT
21 August 1996
Power generation/transmission/distribution
40 acres
Los Padres National Forest
REEVES
5 July 2016
Equipment and vehicle use
1.1 acres
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
1 working within 5 miles of Thacher School Historic District: 1 unknown.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
Ojai, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 2 wildfire, 2 flash flood, 1 flood, 1 lightning.
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.
Strong thunderstorms generated gusty winds in the community of Ojai. Law enforcement reported a couple trees were blown down in the 1000 block of Rancho Drive.
Heavy rainfall generated flash flooding on Ladera Canyon Road near the community of Ojai. Swift water rescue team had to rescue a couple people trapped in a vehicle, due to the flood waters.
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.
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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