Army and Navy YMCA

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2026. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1896.

From the record

One of 616 National Register listings published here for Los Angeles County · listed in 2026 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. 921 S Beacon Street, Los Angelos, 90731
When was it listed? January 2026
Category. building
Census division. Los Angeles
National Register reference number. 100012538 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1896 to 1901

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 5 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Army and Navy YMCA, surveyed 1901

Topographic sheet covering Army and Navy YMCA, surveyed 1896

Fires near this property

72 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Army and Navy YMCA between 2005 and 2020, burning about 279 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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	39
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Smoking	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Debris and open burning	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 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Los Angeles County Fire Department	not named
3 September 2006	Misuse of fire by a minor	5.0 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
29 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
28 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
9 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
7 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Los Angeles County Fire Department	not named
29 August 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
27 August 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	230 acres	Los Angeles County Fire Department	PV

Every fire recorded in Los Angeles County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Army and Navy YMCA: 7 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Limestone, General, Dolomite. 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
Hilltop Quarry	Limestone, General, Dolomite	Past Producer
Linderman and Decker Co.	Clay	Past Producer
Lynn Brick Co.	Clay	Past Producer
Chandlers Palos Verdes S&G Co.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Edward Sidebotham and Sons, Inc.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Graham Bros.-Lomita Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Livingston Rock and Gravel Co.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Los Angeles County

Maps showing this location

14 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.

1896 USGS San Pedro quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1901 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1923 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:24000
1925 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1943 USGS San Pedro quadrangle1:125000
1944 USGS San Pedro quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Long Beach quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1951 USGS San Pedro quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Long Beach quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1958 USGS Long Beach quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Long Beach quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1964 USGS San Pedro quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1981 USGS Long Beach quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings

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
US Post Office-San Pedro Main	under 500 feet	1985
San Pedro Municipal Ferry Building	0.2 miles	1996
RALPH J. SCOTT	0.4 miles	1989
Warner Brothers Theatre	0.7 miles	1999
S.S. CATALINA	1.0 miles	1976
LANE VICTORY	1.1 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100012538 in Record Group 79.
Los Angeles County	All 616 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.