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One of 63 National Register listings published here for San Mateo County · listed in 2021 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Arthur C. and Judith Mathews House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021. 22 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Mathews, Arthur C. and Judith, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 83 Wisteria Way, Atherton, 94027
- When was it listed? December 2021
- Category. building
- Census division. San Mateo
- National Register reference number. 100007224 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1897 to 1997The 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.
Fires near this property
179 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 179 fires within 5 miles of Arthur C. and Judith Mathews House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 85 acres in total. None started naturally. 16 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 | 109 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 20 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 16 |
| Smoking | 13 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 10 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
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 | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 6 September 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.2 acres | San Mateo-Santa Cruz Unit | ALPINE |
| 6 September 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | San Mateo-Santa Cruz Unit | PIPE |
| 5 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | San Mateo-Santa Cruz Unit | not named |
| 5 September 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Santa Clara Unit | not named |
| 5 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 4 September 1992 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | San Mateo-Santa Cruz Unit | S.F. WATERSHED |
| 30 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | NB HWY 280 / SAND HILL R |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 20 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Arthur C. and Judith Mathews House: 7 past producers, 7 producers, 5 unknowns, 1 occurrence. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Mercury, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ideal Cement Company | Limestone, General, Clay | Producer | ||
| Palo Alto Sewage Sludge | Gold, Silver, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Copper, Tin, Palladium | Occurrence | Ash | |
| Redwood City Operation | Halite | Producer | ||
| Granite Rock | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Granite Rock | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Kaiser Gypsum | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Kaiser Gypsum | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Past Producer | ||
| Redwood City Operation | Salt | Past Producer | ||
| Redwood City Plant | Salt | Producer | ||
| Challenge | Mercury | Past Producer | 1955 |
Storms near this property
7 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Atherton, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2014 and 2020: 5 flood, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2014 | Flash Flood | Atherton | $500,000 | Heavy rain caused flooding of several trailer parks in Redwood City. The combination of standing water and a local creek flooding resulted in the need for residents to be evacuated from the Le Mar Trailer Park and RC Mobile Home Park on E Bayshore in Redwood City. 50 mobile homes were evacuated and residents were sent to shelters. |
| December 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Atherton | $10,000 | A tree fell on a house in the early morning in Atherton. A pine tree fell through the roof and into a bedroom. No injuries https://www.sfgate.com/news/bayarea/article/Nobody-Injured-Christmas-Morning-After-Tree-Falls-13490931.php. |
| January 2020 | Flood | Atherton | - | Roadway flooding on US-101 S and Marsh Rd off ramp. |
| January 2019 | Flood | Atherton | - | Roadway flooding at 355 Convention Way. |
| February 2017 | Flood | Atherton | - | Multiple reports of all lanes blocked on NB HWY 101 at Woodside Rd due to crash and flooding. |
| February 2017 | Flood | Atherton | - | At least two lanes flooding US 101 South near Woodside Road off ramp. |
| February 2015 | Flood | Atherton | - | Heavy rain resulted in flooding of Southbound US 101 offramp. |
Maps showing this location
22 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.
- 1897 USGS Palo Alto quadrangle1:62500
- 1899 USGS Palo Alto quadrangle1:62500 - 11 printings
- 1902 USGS Santa Cruz quadrangle1:125000 - 9 printings
- 1941 USGS Palo Alto quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Palo Alto quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Palo Alto quadrangle1:62500
- 1948 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Palo Alto quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1955 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
- 1957 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Palo Alto quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Palo Alto quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
- 1961 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Palo Alto quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
- 1985 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1991 USGS Palo Alto quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1997 USGS Palo Alto quadrangle1:24000
Listed places nearby
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Church of the Nativity | 0.9 miles | 1980 |
 | Holbrook-Palmer Estate, "Elmwood" | 1.1 miles | 2016 |
| Barron-Latham-Hopkins Gate Lodge | 1.2 miles | 1986 | |
 | Menlo Park Railroad Station | 1.3 miles | 1974 |
| Commodore James Watkins House | 1.7 miles | 2008 | |
 | Union Cemetery | 2.7 miles | 1983 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100007224 in Record Group 79. |
| San Mateo County | All 63 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.