Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1889.
From the record
“The Fairglen Additions is an example of Mid-century modern-style tract housing located in San Jose, California, US. Comprising 218 single-family houses within the Willow Glen neighborhood of San Jose, this district was built between 1959 and 1961.”
Wikipedia article Fairglen Additions, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 117 National Register listings published here for Santa Clara County · listed in 2019 · category: District.
Also known as. Housing Tracts of Joseph Eichler in San Jose, 1952-1963 MPS
Census division. San Jose
National Register reference number. 100004036 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1889 to 1978
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
18891978
Fires near this property
142 since 1994
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 142 fires within 5 miles of Fairglen Additions (Unit 1, Unit 2, and Unit 3)
between 1994 and 2020, burning about 173 acres in total. None started naturally. 17 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
91
Arson/incendiarism
17
Equipment and vehicle use
15
Smoking
8
Misuse of fire by a minor
6
Power generation/transmission/distribution
3
Recreation and ceremony
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
9 September 2018
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
6 September 2008
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
6 September 2000
Equipment and vehicle use
under an acre
Santa Clara Unit
FEE
30 September 2016
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
28 September 2017
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
25 September 2016
Arson/incendiarism
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
23 September 2016
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
23 September 2005
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
44 workings within 5 miles of Fairglen Additions (Unit 1, Unit 2, and Unit 3): 24 past producers, 11 producers, 5 unknowns, 2 prospects.
11 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Mercury, Stone, Clay. 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
San Jose, the town this property stands in, in 33 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 19 flood, 6 hail, 4 flash flood, 3 lightning.
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.
One person was reported possibly trapped inside a car on northbound Highway 280 south of the 87 connector near the Reed Street offramp before 6 a.m. 10/27, according to the CHP and San Jose firefighters. ||Http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Slow-Down-Accidents-Abound-in-Bay-Area-as-Rain-Pelts-Highways-399016231.html.
Lightning struck two houses in San Jose, setting one on fire https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2020/08/16/lightning-from-rare-bay-area-thunderstorm-leaves-damage-in-its-wake/. Amount of damage unknown.
Even as the sun began to break through as the rain eased up, drivers discovered flooded roads. One full lane of Senter Road across from San Jose's Kelley Park was impassable. Despite a warning sign, some big rigs and smaller vehicles plowed through the small lake anyway.||Http://abc7news.com/weather/heavy-rain-drenches-south-bay-/1578706/.
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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