BlockFrom the record
One of 64 National Register listings published here for Monterey County · listed in 2022 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Asilomar Conference Grounds Warnecke Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1920.
The listing
- Address. 800 Asilomar Blvd., Pacific Grove, 93924
- When was it listed? October 2022
- Category. district
- Census division. Soledad
- National Register reference number. 100008261 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Then and now
1920 to 1995The ground this property stands on, surveyed 75 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
41 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Asilomar Conference Grounds Warnecke Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,212 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 | 16 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 24 acres | San Benito-Monterey Unit | CABEU003655 |
| 19 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,100 acres | San Benito-Monterey Unit | TASSAJARA |
| 19 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | San Benito-Monterey Unit | CABEU003549 |
| 17 September 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | KINCANNON |
| 14 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 25 acres | San Benito-Monterey Unit | CABEU 003463 |
| 12 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.5 acres | San Benito-Monterey Unit | SKY RANCH |
| 6 August 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Los Padres National Forest | PARROTT |
| 4 August 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Los Padres National Forest | CHEWS |
Mines and quarries near this property
7 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Asilomar Conference Grounds Warnecke Historic District: 4 prospects, 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Mercury, Uranium, Copper, Limestone, General. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lambert Ranch Deposit | Limestone, General | Prospect | ||
| Chews Ridge Area | Uranium | Producer | ||
| Chews Ridge Area | Uranium | Prospect | ||
| Red Hill Mercury | Mercury | Prospect | ||
| Trampa Canyon | Copper | Occurrence | Chalcopyrite, Pyrite | |
| Trampa Canyon | Copper | Prospect | ||
| Unnamed | Mercury | Occurrence |
Storms near this property
3 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pacific Grove, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 1 storm surge/tide, 1 hail, 1 funnel cloud. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 1999 | Storm Surge/Tide | Pacific Grove | 2 hurt | no account filed |
| December 2025 | Funnel Cloud | Pacific Grove | - | A funnel cloud was observed around 1 mile off the coast of Asilomar. |
| April 2018 | Hail | Pacific Grove | - | Social media video showing small hail in Pacific Grove. |
Maps showing this location
14 surveysUnited States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
- 1920 USGS Jamesburg quadrangle1:48000
- 1921 USGS Jamesburg quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
- 1939 USGS Jamesburg quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1940 USGS Jamesburg quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1947 USGS Jamesburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1948 USGS Santa Cruz quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Santa Cruz quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Chews Ridge quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Santa Cruz quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Santa Cruz quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Santa Cruz quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Monterey quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Point Sur quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings
- 1995 USGS Chews Ridge quadrangle1:24000
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100008261 in Record Group 79. |
| Monterey County | All 64 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.