Built in 1969 (modernism). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020. 20 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1894.
From the record
“The Wilshire Federal Building is an office building in Los Angeles, located on Wilshire and Sepulveda Boulevards in the area of Sawtelle. Many of Los Angeles' federal offices are located in this building.”
Wikipedia article Wilshire Federal Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 616 National Register listings published here for Los Angeles County · listed in 2020 · category: Building · built in 1969, modernism, by Charles Luckman.
National Register reference number. 100005446 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1894 to 1979
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.
18941979
Fires near this property
48 since 1995
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Federal Building
between 1995 and 2020, burning about 1,419 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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
22
Equipment and vehicle use
5
Misuse of fire by a minor
5
Smoking
5
Power generation/transmission/distribution
3
Arson/incendiarism
3
Debris and open burning
2
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
29 September 2017
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area
EAST FIRE
18 September 1995
Arson/incendiarism
5.0 acres
Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area
FRANKLIN
16 September 2019
Misuse of fire by a minor
under an acre
Los Angeles County Fire Department
not named
15 September 2012
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
7.0 acres
Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area
RUSTIC
21 August 2000
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
10 acres
Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area
405FWY
20 August 2010
Smoking
1.0 acres
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
8 July 2009
Misuse of fire by a minor
80 acres
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
8 July 2005
Arson/incendiarism
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
5 workings within 5 miles of Federal Building: 5 past producers.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Los Angeles, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2000 and 2026: 3 flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 high wind, 1 tornado.
The reports record 2 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.
A weak tornado developed in the community of Montebello. The EF1 tornado impacted the area around the intersection of Washington Boulevard and Maple Avenue. There was substantial damage to the industrial warehouse and commercial business district, including nearly total roof collapse in one building and a total of 17 damaged structures. Numerous vehicles were damaged due to flying debris.
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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