Corona Foothill Ranch

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025. 17 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.

From the record

One of 90 National Register listings published here for Riverside County · listed in 2025 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 15 buildingss, 3 sitess, 2 structuress as contributing to the listing.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. 510 West Foothill Parkway, Corona, 92882
When was it listed? September 2025
Category. district
Census division. Corona
National Register reference number. 100012303 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1901 to 1997

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Corona Foothill Ranch, surveyed 1997

Topographic sheet covering Corona Foothill Ranch, surveyed 1901

Fires near this property

478 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 478 fires within 5 miles of Corona Foothill Ranch between 1992 and 2020, burning about 46,212 acres in total. None started naturally. 39 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	247
Equipment and vehicle use	85
Arson/incendiarism	39
Misuse of fire by a minor	32
Recreation and ceremony	29
Smoking	18
Debris and open burning	17
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Fireworks	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	3

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 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	ANDOVER ST HOMG
8 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Riverside Unit	STATE#1413
30 September 2010	Debris and open burning	100 acres	Riverside Unit	GROVEWOOD DR ELCE
30 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	440 acres	Cleveland National Forest	CHASE
3 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
3 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Riverside Unit	STATE FIRE
3 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	35 acres	Riverside Unit	STATE
29 September 2004	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Cleveland National Forest	COLT

Every fire recorded in Riverside County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 113 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 113 workings within 5 miles of Corona Foothill Ranch: 76 past producers, 15 prospects, 13 producers, 7 occurrences. 13 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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	Recorded
Big Basin Copper Prospect	Copper, Gold, Silver	Prospect
Middlesworth Clay Deposit	Clay, Aluminum	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Temescal Canyon Scheelite Occur.	Tungsten	Occurrence
Temescal Rock Quarry	Granite	Producer
Collins Prospect	Copper	Past Producer
Corona Lead-Zinc	Lead, Antimony, Silver, Zinc	Past Producer	Vein
Corona Lead-Zinc Mine	Lead, Antimony, Silver, Zinc	Past Producer
Home Gardens	Kyanite	Occurrence
Unnamed Dumortierite Occurrence	Kyanite	Occurrence
Corona Division Quarry and Mill	Stone	Producer

Every working recorded in Riverside County

Storms near this property

23 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Corona, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 9 wildfire, 6 heavy rain, 4 flash flood, 1 hail. 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
January 2005	Heavy Rain	Corona	$20,000,000	no account filed
February 2005	Heavy Rain	Corona	$20,000,000	no account filed
September 1999	Wildfire	Corona	$500,000	A wild fire broke out in Tin Mine Canyon and burned towards subdivisions on the southwest side of Corona, destroying one house and damaging five others. Erratic winds then caused the fire to burn both towards the east, threatening additonal houses, and back towards the west up the canyons in the Cleveland National Forest. As September ended the fire was still uncontained, with 250 acres of brush and citrus groves burnt, and over 200 homes evacuated.
June 2001	Wildfire	Corona	$150,000	no account filed
January 2005	Flash Flood	Corona	$50,000	no account filed
March 2004	Heavy Rain	Corona	$30,000	no account filed
January 2005	Flash Flood	Corona	$20,000	no account filed
November 2003	Flash Flood	Corona	$20,000	no account filed
October 2016	Lightning	Corona	$6,000	Multiple utility poles down, likely caused by frequent cloud to ground lightning.
February 2005	Flash Flood	Corona	$5,000	no account filed
February 2025	Heavy Rain	Corona	-	A trained spotter reported a 24-hour period ending 02/14/2025 at 7:20 AM PST, with a total of 1.88 inches.
January 2023	Heavy Rain	Corona	-	A retaining wall collapsed in Corona around 4:30 AM on January 16 resulting in twenty-four residents who had to evacuate their homes in nearby areas. One home was damaged immediately below the wall, and cracked the foundation above. Broadcast media reported that concrete blocks crashed down into adjacent properties, burying backyards and patios, and smashing through glass doors. Corona has received 1.5 to 3 inches of rain in the preceding 48 hours before the collapse.
January 2023	Flood	Corona	-	Public report of six inches of flowing water in the HOV lane on Highway 91.
December 2021	Heavy Rain	Corona	-	CoCoRaHS station ca-rv-78 in Corona measures 3.17 inches of rain in past 24 hours.
December 2014	Debris Flow	Corona	-	A debris flow of rocks and mud several inches deep covered Highway 91 in Corona. All east-bound lanes were closed at 0200 PST.
October 1999	Wildfire	Corona	-	On September 30 this fire destroyed citrus groves and one house, damaged another five houses, and forced the evacuation of 200 others. Fire fighters were able to keep it from consuming another $200 million in property damage. The fire was fully contained on October 2. A total of 450 acres burned.
April 2006	Hail	Corona	-	no account filed
June 2003	Wildfire	Corona	-	no account filed
June 2003	Wildfire	Corona	-	no account filed
March 2002	Wildfire	Corona	-	no account filed
July 2002	Wildfire	Corona	-	no account filed
June 2001	Wildfire	Corona	-	no account filed
September 2001	Wildfire	Corona	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Riverside County

Maps showing this location

17 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.

1901 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
1902 USGS Corona quadrangle1:125000 - 7 printings
1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1942 USGS Corona quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1942 USGS Corona and Vicinity quadrangle1:31680
1943 USGS Corona quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Corona South quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1965 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Corona South quadrangle1:24000 - 6 printings
1974 USGS Corona South quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:100000
1997 USGS Corona South 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
Woman's Improvement Club Clubhouse	1.7 miles	1988
Thomas Jefferson Elementary School	1.8 miles	2017
Andrew Carnegie Library	2.0 miles	1977
Corona High School	2.1 miles	2005
Grand Boulevard Historic District	2.1 miles	2011
Lake Norconian Club	5.5 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100012303 in Record Group 79.
Riverside County	All 90 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.