City Transfer and Storage Company Warehouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1899.

From the record

One of 98 National Register listings published here for San Bernardino County · listed in 2023 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 440 Oriental Ave., Redlands, 92374
When was it listed? October 2023
Category. building
Census division. San Bernardino
National Register reference number. 100009474 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1899 to 1996

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 97 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering City Transfer and Storage Company Warehouse, surveyed 1996

Topographic sheet covering City Transfer and Storage Company Warehouse, surveyed 1899

Fires near this property

860 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 860 fires within 5 miles of City Transfer and Storage Company Warehouse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 9,406 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 101 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	417
Equipment and vehicle use	167
Arson/incendiarism	101
Misuse of fire by a minor	77
Smoking	40
Debris and open burning	31
Recreation and ceremony	12
Natural	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	2

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
9 September 2012	Natural	under an acre	California Desert District	CONE
9 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	San Bernardino Unit	9TH
9 September 1996	Railroad operations and maintenance	293 acres	San Bernardino Unit	CANYON
8 September 2012	Natural	57 acres	California Desert District	GREENSPOT
8 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	San Bernardino Unit	BASELINE IC 2
8 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	San Bernardino Unit	GOLFBALL
7 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	San Bernardino Unit	not named
5 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	San Bernardino Unit	PALM AV / 9TH ST 3

Every fire recorded in San Bernardino County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of City Transfer and Storage Company Warehouse: 10 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Mercury. 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	Recorded
City Creek	Mercury	Occurrence
Alabama Street Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Old Webster Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Pacific Rock and Gravel Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Plunge Creek Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Redlands	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Redlands Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Redlands Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Redlands Pit No. 1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Redlands Pit No. 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in San Bernardino County

Storms near this property

2 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Redlands, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1998 and 2004: 1 heavy rain, 1 flash flood. The reports record 4 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
November 1998	Heavy Rain	Redlands	4 hurt	no account filed
October 2004	Flash Flood	Redlands	$700,000	Water overflowed the banks of the Mill Creek Zanja flood channel, causing an estimated $700,000 in damage to the flood channel and surrounding areas near Sylvan Park and the University of Redlands.

Every storm recorded in San Bernardino County

Maps showing this location

16 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.

1899 USGS Redlands quadrangle1:62500
1901 USGS Redlands quadrangle1:62500 - 9 printings
1901 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1953 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1954 USGS Redlands quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1954 USGS Redlands quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Redlands quadrangle1:24000 - 6 printings
1975 USGS Redlands quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:100000
1996 USGS Redlands quadrangle1:24000

Listed places nearby

6 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
Redlands Santa Fe Depot District	0.3 miles	1991
US Post Office-Redlands Main	0.3 miles	1985
A. K. Smiley Public Library	0.4 miles	1976
Smiley Park Historic District	0.6 miles	1994
Redlands Central Railway Company Car Barn	0.7 miles	1991
Beverly Ranch	1.0 miles	2004

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100009474 in Record Group 79.
San Bernardino County	All 98 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.