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Photograph of St. Isidore Catholic Church
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St. Isidore Catholic Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022. 21 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1896.

From the record

“Isidore Catholic Church, is a historic church in Los Alamitos, California. It is the oldest building in the city and one of the oldest in Orange County, being built in 1933.”

Wikipedia article St. Isidore Catholic Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 136 National Register listings published here for Orange County · listed in 2022 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
  • Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
  • Address. 10961 Reagan St., Los Alamitos, 90720
  • When was it listed? February 2022
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Latinos in 20th Century California MPS
  • Census division. Anaheim-Santa Ana-Garden Grove
  • National Register reference number. 100007440 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1896 to 1901

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 5 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering St. Isidore Catholic Church, surveyed 1901
Topographic sheet covering St. Isidore Catholic Church, surveyed 1896

Fires near this property

193 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 193 fires within 5 miles of St. Isidore Catholic Church between 2000 and 2020, burning about 4,502 acres in total. None started naturally. 29 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/undetermined104
Arson/incendiarism29
Smoking28
Equipment and vehicle use16
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Debris and open burning6
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
6 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
25 September 2007Smokingunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
24 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLos Angeles County Fire Departmentnot named
24 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
23 September 2011Smokingunder an acreOrange County Fire Authoritynot named
20 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of St. Isidore Catholic Church: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Long Beach Brick CoClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Long Beach Brick Co.ClayPast Producer
R LoynesClayPast ProducerSedimentary
R. LoynesClayPast Producer
Torrance Brick Co - Torr Plant No 1ClayPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Orange County

Maps showing this location

21 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.

Listed places nearby

4 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Seal Beach City Hall4.7 miles1983
ELECTRA (motor yacht)5.7 miles2023
Phillip Ackley Stanton House6.9 miles1980
Hunt Center and Library7.9 miles2019

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 100007440 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Orange CountyAll 136 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.