Ballard Adobes

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025. 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 2025 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 2411 Alamo Pintado Road, Ballard, 93441
When was it listed? January 2025
Category. building
Census division. Solvang-Santa Ynez
National Register reference number. 100011216 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1905 to 1995

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Ballard Adobes, surveyed 1995

Topographic sheet covering Ballard Adobes, surveyed 1905

Fires near this property

87 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Ballard Adobes between 2005 and 2020, burning about 146 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	59
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Debris and open burning	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Arson/incendiarism	4
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
30 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Santa Barbara County Fire Department	not named
3 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14 acres	Santa Barbara County Fire Department	not named
26 September 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
25 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
20 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Santa Barbara County Fire Department	not named
2 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
17 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
14 September 2005	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

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Ballard Adobes: 4 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Diatomite, Chromium. 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
American Chrome	Chromium	Occurrence
American Chrome Deposit	Chromium	Occurrence	Chromite
Buell Flat Bar	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Solvang Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unnamed Diatomite Deposit	Diatomite	Prospect
Unnamed Diatomite Deposits	Diatomite	Occurrence
Unnamed Diatomite Deposits	Diatomite	Occurrence

Every working 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 quadrangle1:125000
1942 USGS Los Olivos quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Lompoc quadrangle1:125000
1943 USGS Los Olivos quadrangle1:62500
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 Los Olivos quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1959 USGS Los Olivos quadrangle1:62500
1962 USGS Santa Maria quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Santa Maria quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1989 USGS Santa Maria quadrangle1:250000
1995 USGS Los Olivos quadrangle1:24000

Listed places nearby

1 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Mission Santa Ines, Church	4.2 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100011216 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.