Malaga Cove Plaza

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1896.

From the record

One of 616 National Register listings published here for Los Angeles County · listed in 2021 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 11 buildingss, 2 sitess, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Address. Roughly bounded by Palos Verdes Drive West, Vía Tejon, Vía Corta, and Malaga Ln., Palos Verdes Estates, 90274
When was it listed? October 2021
Category. district
Census division. Palos Verdes
National Register reference number. 100007016 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1896 to 1996

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 100 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Malaga Cove Plaza, surveyed 1996

Topographic sheet covering Malaga Cove Plaza, surveyed 1896

Fires near this property

111 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 111 fires within 5 miles of Malaga Cove Plaza between 2005 and 2020, burning about 294 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	65
Equipment and vehicle use	18
Smoking	15
Arson/incendiarism	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Debris and open burning	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
8 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
7 September 2011	Smoking	1.0 acres	Los Angeles County Fire Department	not named
6 September 2020	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Los Angeles County Fire Department	not named
6 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
29 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
22 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
20 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Los Angeles County Fire Department	not named
17 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named

Every fire recorded in Los Angeles County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Malaga Cove Plaza: 13 past producers, 2 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Diatomite, Silica, Titanium, Metal. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Burdick Minerals Corp.	Titanium, Lead	Past Producer
Palos Verdes Stone Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Torrance Brick Co.-Plant No 1	Clay	Past Producer
Clifton	Titanium, Metal	Producer
Clifton-Redondo Placer	Titanium, Metal	Producer	Ilmenite
Caswell & Co.	Silica	Past Producer
Diatomaceous Earth Deposit	Diatomite	Occurrence
Diatomaceous Earth Quarry	Diatomite	Past Producer
Dicalite	Diatomite	Occurrence
Lawrence I. Liston Co.-Madrona Ave	Silica	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Los Angeles County

Storms near this property

1 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Palos Verdes Estates, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1999: 1 funnel cloud. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 1999	Funnel Cloud	Palos Verdes Estates	-	A weather spotter reported a funnel cloud west of Palos Verdes.

Every storm recorded in Los Angeles County

Maps showing this location

16 surveys

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.

1896 USGS Redondo quadrangle1:62500 - 9 printings
1901 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1924 USGS Torrance quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1934 USGS Torrance quadrangle1:20000
1934 USGS Torrance quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1943 USGS San Pedro quadrangle1:125000
1944 USGS Redondo quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Long Beach quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1951 USGS Redondo Beach quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Long Beach quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1958 USGS Long Beach quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Long Beach quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1963 USGS Redondo Beach quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1981 USGS Long Beach quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings
1996 USGS Redondo Beach quadrangle1:24000

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Palos Verdes Public Library and Art Gallery	0.1 miles	1995
Palos Verdes Public Library and Art Gallery- Farnham Martin's Park (Boundary Increase)	0.1 miles	1996
Mirlo Gate Lodge Tower	2.0 miles	2019
Woman's Club of Redondo Beach	2.5 miles	1984
Redondo Beach Public Library	2.6 miles	1981
Diamond Apartments	3.0 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100007016 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.
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.