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One of 90 National Register listings published here for Riverside County · listed in 2012 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Steel Development House Number 2
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.
The listing
- Listing status. The Park Service records this property as Removed.
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 3125 North Sunny View Dr., Palm Springs, 92262
- When was it listed? March 2012
- Category. building
- Census division. Palm Springs
- National Register reference number. 12000125 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Then and now
1901 to 1996The ground this property stands on, surveyed 95 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
460 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 460 fires within 5 miles of Steel Development House Number 2 between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,176 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 28 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 | 267 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 67 |
| Smoking | 34 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 28 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 24 |
| Debris and open burning | 11 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 10 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 9 |
| Natural | 8 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 9 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 8 September 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 8 September 2007 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | California Desert District | UNNAMED FIRE 3130 |
| 7 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | San Bernardino National Forest | not named |
| 6 September 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | San Bernardino National Forest | WINDY |
| 5 September 2007 | Smoking | under an acre | California Desert District | UNNAMED FIRE 2715 |
| 30 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Desert District | PALM |
Mines and quarries near this property
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Steel Development House Number 2: 2 prospects, 2 past producers, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Geothermal, Limestone, General. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chino Canyon Deposits | Limestone, General | Occurrence | ||
| Frances Group | Gold | Prospect | ||
| Mineral Canyon Nos. 5-7 | Iron | Prospect | ||
| Palm Springs | Geothermal | Producer | ||
| Flat Top Mtn. Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Massey Indian Avenue | Sand and Gravel, Construction | 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.
- 1901 USGS San Jacinto quadrangle1:125000 - 9 printings
- 1901 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
- 1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1940 USGS Palm Springs quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Palm Springs quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Palm Springs quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Palm Springs quadrangle1:24000 - 6 printings
- 1959 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
- 1975 USGS Palm Springs quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Palm Springs quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings
- 1996 USGS Palm Springs quadrangle1:24000
Listed places nearby
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Riviera Gardens | 0.1 miles | 2021 | |
| Grace Lewis Miller House | 0.6 miles | 2020 | |
 | Tramway Gas Station | 0.8 miles | 2015 |
 | Carey House | 1.0 miles | 2015 |
 | Loewy House | 1.1 miles | 2015 |
 | Hamrick House | 1.2 miles | 2016 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 12000125 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.