Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019. 17 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.
From the record
“Moonlight, designated by the National Register of Historic Places as the Encinitas Boathouses, are two houses made to look like a boat in Encinitas, California. Despite their appearance, they have never been to sea and are purely novelty architecture.”
Wikipedia article Encinitas Boathouses, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 148 National Register listings published here for San Diego County · listed in 2019 · category: Building.
National Register reference number. 100004530 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1893 to 1997
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
104 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
18931997
Fires near this property
42 since 1993
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Encinitas Boathouses
between 1993 and 2020, burning about 929 acres in total. None 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/undetermined
24
Equipment and vehicle use
11
Recreation and ceremony
2
Misuse of fire by a minor
2
Arson/incendiarism
2
Smoking
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
8 September 2010
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1.0 acres
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
24 September 2004
Equipment and vehicle use
2.0 acres
San Diego Unit
BERNARDO
15 September 2005
Equipment and vehicle use
under an acre
San Diego Unit
LEWIS
5 August 2020
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1.0 acres
San Diego Unit
not named
27 August 1994
Equipment and vehicle use
1.0 acres
San Diego Unit
GOLF CART
16 August 2006
Arson/incendiarism
1.0 acres
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
5 workings within 5 miles of Encinitas Boathouses: 2 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gemstone. 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
Encinitas, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 4 flood, 3 flash flood, 2 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind.
The reports record 27 injuries. 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.
Encinitas Police Department is reporting 12 incidents of flooding and flash flooding in Encinitas. Several people have been evacuated from homes in the Encinitas Blvd/Quail Gardens Road area. Twenty persons evacuated from a nursing home. Debris flow also in flooded area up to window of structure at Sunshine Gardens Apartments.
A squall produced a short burst of 50-65 mph winds between Cardiff by the Sea and Lake Hodges. The mesonet station at Elfin Forest reported a peak wind gust of 64 mph. Tree damage was also reported.
A waterspout came ashore in Encinitas and blew down a few trees before dissipating. One of the trees fell across some railroad tracks and temporarily halted train traffic.
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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