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One of 616 National Register listings published here for Los Angeles County · listed in 2020 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Pioneer Oil Refinery
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 9 structuress, 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 0.35 mi. southwest of jct. of Pine St. and Newhall Ave., Santa Clarita, 91321
- When was it listed? December 2020
- Category. district
- Census division. Newhall
- National Register reference number. 100005942 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1903 to 1979The ground this property stands on, surveyed 76 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Fires near this property
427 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 427 fires within 5 miles of Pioneer Oil Refinery between 1992 and 2020, burning about 19,646 acres in total. 1 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 | 222 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 89 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 42 |
| Smoking | 36 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 16 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 6 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 6 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 6 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Angeles National Forest | not named |
| 5 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 4 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Los Angeles County Fire Department | not named |
| 3 September 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Angeles National Forest | SIERRA |
| 3 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Angeles National Forest | INTERSECTION |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 11 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Pioneer Oil Refinery: 4 past producers, 3 prospects, 2 occurrences, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Asbestos, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alfredo Payola, Et Al. | Stone | Occurrence | ||
| Paradise Deposit | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Wilson Deposit | Limestone, General | Prospect | ||
| Curtis-Hooker Corp. | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Fiber Queen | Asbestos | Past Producer | Metamorphic | |
| Fiber Queen | Asbestos | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gold Discovery Site, 1842 | Gold | Prospect | ||
| Nils Desperandum | Gold | Unknown | ||
| Placerita Canyon Placers | Gold | Occurrence |
Maps showing this location
14 surveysUnited 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.
- 1903 USGS Camulos quadrangle1:125000 - 5 printings
- 1903 USGS Santa Susana quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
- 1929 USGS Newhall quadrangle1:24000
- 1933 USGS Newhall quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
- 1941 USGS Santa Susana quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Santa Susana quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1952 USGS Oat Mountain quadrangle1:24000 - 8 printings
- 1955 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1966 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000
- 1975 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1976 USGS Oat Mountain quadrangle1:24000
- 1979 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:100000
Listed places nearby
4 within 8 milesOther 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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Well No. 4, Pico Canyon Oil Field | 6.3 miles | 1966 |
 | Mission San Fernando Rey de Convento Building | 7.4 miles | 1988 |
 | Lopez Adobe | 7.5 miles | 1971 |
 | Romulo Pico Adobe | 7.6 miles | 1966 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100005942 in Record Group 79. |
| Los Angeles County | All 616 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.