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One of 39 National Register listings published here for Ventura County · listed in 2024 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Bell Canyon Equestrian Center
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 5 buildingss, 1 site, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. 29 Baymare Road, Bell Canyon, 91307
- When was it listed? July 2024
- Category. building
- Census division. Simi Valley
- National Register reference number. 100010547 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1903 to 1979The ground this property stands on, surveyed 76 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
101 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 101 fires within 5 miles of Bell Canyon Equestrian Center between 1992 and 2020, burning about 111,267 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 | 54 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 16 |
| Smoking | 10 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 6 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area | FREEWAY |
| 30 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 28 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area | CALABASAS |
| 26 September 2008 | Smoking | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 25 September 2003 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area | PONYCLUB |
| 16 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | 50 acres | Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area | LIBERTY |
| 15 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area | QUEENS |
Mines and quarries near this property
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Bell Canyon Equestrian Center: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Dimension, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Susana Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Location | Stone | Producer | ||
| Gilbert | Stone, Dimension | Past Producer | ||
| Volcanic Rock | Stone, Dimension | Past Producer |
Maps showing this location
16 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.
- 1903 USGS Calabasas quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
- 1903 USGS Camulos quadrangle1:125000 - 5 printings
- 1925 USGS Chatsworth quadrangle1:24000
- 1927 USGS Chatsworth quadrangle1:24000
- 1929 USGS Chatsworth quadrangle1:24000
- 1933 USGS Chatsworth quadrangle1:24000
- 1940 USGS Chatsworth quadrangle1:24000
- 1944 USGS Calabasas quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1952 USGS Calabasas quadrangle1:24000 - 9 printings
- 1955 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1966 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000
- 1975 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1976 USGS Calabasas quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1979 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:100000
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village | 5.2 miles | 1996 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100010547 in Record Group 79. |
| Ventura County | All 39 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.