Mission La Purísima at 'Amuwu District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1905.

From the record

One of 38 National Register listings published here for Santa Barbara County · listed in 2023 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 2295 Purisima Rd., Lompoc, 93436
When was it listed? October 2023
Category. district
Also known as. Native Americans and the California Mission System, 1769-1848 MPS
Census division. Lompoc
National Register reference number. 100009394 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1905 to 1989

The 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.

Topographic sheet covering Mission La Purísima at 'Amuwu District, surveyed 1989

Topographic sheet covering Mission La Purísima at 'Amuwu District, surveyed 1905

Fires near this property

69 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Mission La Purísima at 'Amuwu District between 2003 and 2020, burning about 1,663 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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	58
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Debris and open burning	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
8 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Santa Barbara County Fire Department	not named
29 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.9 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
29 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	888 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
28 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.4 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
23 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
8 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
31 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Santa Barbara County Fire Department	not named
23 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named

Every fire recorded in Santa Barbara County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Mission La Purísima at 'Amuwu District: 6 past producers, 2 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Diatomite, Stone, Dimension, Limestone, General, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Acin Quarry	Flagstone	Producer
Gann Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Las Cruces Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer
Schuyler Pit	Stone	Past Producer
Tolbert Pit	Stone, Dimension	Past Producer
Dibble Pit	Diatomite	Past Producer
Grefco Diatomite Mill	Diatomite	Producer
Unnamed Diatomite Deposit	Diatomite	Occurrence
Unnamed Diatomite Deposits	Diatomite	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Santa Barbara County

Storms near this property

2 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lompoc, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1998 and 2006: 1 flood, 1 tornado. 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
March 2006	Tornado (F0)	Lompoc	-	A weak tornado touched down in the community of Lompoc. The small tornado touched down in a parking lot of strip mall along North H street. No significant damage was reported.
April 1998	Flood	Lompoc	-	Heavy rain in the Lompoc area produced localized street flooding.

Every storm recorded in Santa Barbara County

Maps showing this location

15 surveys

United 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.

1905 USGS Lompoc quadrangle1:125000 - 7 printings
1942 USGS Lompoc quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1942 USGS Lompoc quadrangle1:125000
1943 USGS Lompoc quadrangle1:125000
1947 USGS Lompoc quadrangle1:24000
1947 USGS Lompoc 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 Lompoc quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1959 USGS Lompoc quadrangle1:24000 - 6 printings
1962 USGS Santa Maria quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Santa Maria quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1989 USGS Santa Maria quadrangle1:250000

Listed places nearby

5 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
La Purisima Mission	0.6 miles	1970
Lompoc Public Library	3.9 miles	1990
Mission de la Purisima Concepcion de Maria Santisima Site	4.1 miles	1978
Lompoc Veterans Memorial Building	4.2 miles	2016
Los Alamos Ranch House	6.8 miles	1970

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100009394 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.