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One of 38 National Register listings published here for Santa Barbara County · listed in 2022 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Royal Theater (Additional Documentation)
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1905.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. 848 Guadalupe St., Guadalupe, 93434
- When was it listed? March 2022
- Category. building
- Also known as. Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in California, 1850-1970 MPS; Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in California, 1850-1995 MPS
- Census division. Guadalupe
- National Register reference number. 100007474 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1905 to 1989The ground this property stands on, surveyed 84 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
70 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Royal Theater (Additional Documentation) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 576 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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 | 24 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 24 |
| Debris and open burning | 11 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 1994 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | San Luis Obispo Unit | SLU 2993 |
| 26 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | San Luis Obispo Unit | TEFFT |
| 26 September 1997 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | San Luis Obispo Unit | DUNE |
| 21 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 16 September 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | San Luis Obispo Unit | ALBERT |
| 15 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | San Luis Obispo Unit | TRILOGY |
| 14 September 2014 | Recreation and ceremony | 13 acres | San Luis Obispo Unit | INDIANA |
| 11 September 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | San Luis Obispo Unit | WILLOW |
Mines and quarries near this property
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Royal Theater (Additional Documentation): 2 producers, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Calcium, Gemstone. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Betteravia Plant | Calcium | Producer | ||
| Guadalupe Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Stone Canyon Jasper Deposit | Gemstone | Prospect |
Storms near this property
4 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Guadalupe, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 rip current. The reports record 2 deaths. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2002 | Rip Current | Guadalupe | 2 killed | Two men who were fishing along Guadalupe Beach were swept out to sea by a large wave. Both men were presumed dead. |
| January 2023 | Flash Flood | Guadalupe | - | Heavy rainfall produced flash flooding on Highway 1 near the Quintana Road. |
| December 2014 | Flash Flood | Guadalupe | - | Heavy rain produced flash flooding in the community of Guadalupe. Three vehicles were trapped when a roadway flooded due to the heavy rain. |
| November 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Guadalupe | - | no account filed |
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.
- 1905 USGS Guadalupe quadrangle1:125000 - 6 printings
- 1942 USGS Guadalupe quadrangle1:125000
- 1942 USGS Point Sal quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Guadalupe quadrangle1:24000
- 1947 USGS Point Sal quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Santa Maria quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Santa Maria quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Santa Maria quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Santa Maria quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Guadalupe quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
- 1959 USGS Point Sal quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Santa Maria quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Santa Maria quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Santa Maria quadrangle1:250000
Listed places nearby
1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Minerva Club of Santa Maria | 7.9 miles | 1984 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100007474 in Record Group 79. |
| Santa Barbara County | All 38 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.