Clifford Allen House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024. 22 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.

From the record

One of 117 National Register listings published here for Santa Clara County · listed in 2024 · 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.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Listed as. Allen, Clifford, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 637 Alvarado Row, Stanford, 94305
When was it listed? July 2024
Category. building
Census division. San Jose
National Register reference number. 100009748 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1897 to 1997

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 100 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Clifford Allen House, surveyed 1997

Topographic sheet covering Clifford Allen House, surveyed 1897

Fires near this property

198 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 198 fires within 5 miles of Clifford Allen House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 143 acres in total. None started naturally. 16 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	117
Equipment and vehicle use	32
Arson/incendiarism	16
Smoking	12
Misuse of fire by a minor	11
Debris and open burning	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Recreation and ceremony	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 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
6 September 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	1.2 acres	San Mateo-Santa Cruz Unit	ALPINE
5 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Santa Clara Unit	not named
5 September 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
30 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	NB HWY 280 / SAND HILL R
30 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
28 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
26 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Santa Clara Unit	not named

Every fire recorded in Santa Clara County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Clifford Allen House: 6 producers, 5 past producers, 4 unknowns, 1 occurrence. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gold, Silver. 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
J. M. Macdonough	Gold, Lead, Silver	Unknown
J.M. Macdonough Ranch	Gold, Silver, Lead	Past Producer	Gold
Palo Alto Sewage Sludge	Gold, Silver, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Copper, Tin, Palladium	Occurrence	Ash
Adobe Creek Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Adobe Creek Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Mt. View Crushing Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Bahr & Ledoyen, Inc.	Stone	Producer
Bahr & Ledoyen, Inc.	Stone	Past Producer
New Page Mill Quarries	Stone	Producer
New Page Mill Quarries	Stone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Santa Clara County

Storms near this property

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stanford, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2017: 1 flash flood. 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
February 2017	Flash Flood	Stanford	-	San Francisquito Creek at Standford gauge above flood stage.

Every storm recorded in Santa Clara County

Maps showing this location

22 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.

1897 USGS Palo Alto quadrangle1:62500
1899 USGS Palo Alto quadrangle1:62500 - 11 printings
1902 USGS Santa Cruz quadrangle1:125000 - 9 printings
1941 USGS Palo Alto quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Palo Alto quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Palo Alto quadrangle1:62500
1948 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Palo Alto quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1955 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1957 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Palo Alto quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1961 USGS Palo Alto quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1961 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Palo Alto quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1985 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
1991 USGS Palo Alto quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1997 USGS Palo Alto 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
Lou Henry Hoover House	0.3 miles	1978
Hanna-Honeycomb House	0.4 miles	1978
MacFarland House	0.4 miles	2006
Kee House	0.9 miles	1985
Palo Alto Stock Farm Horse Barn	1.1 miles	1985
Hostess House	1.5 miles	1976

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100009748 in Record Group 79.
Santa Clara County	All 117 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.