BlockFrom the record
One of 98 National Register listings published here for San Bernardino County · listed in 2012 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Ontario and San Antonio Heights Waiting Station
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. 22 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 1251 W. 24th St., Upland, 91784
- When was it listed? September 2012
- Category. building
- Census division. Ontario
- National Register reference number. 12000813 - 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
1897 to 1995The ground this property stands on, surveyed 98 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
327 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 327 fires within 5 miles of Ontario and San Antonio Heights Waiting Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 12,598 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 84 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 | 89 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 84 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 58 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 33 |
| Smoking | 16 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 12 |
| Fireworks | 11 |
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Natural | 8 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 7 |
| Other causes | 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 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Angeles National Forest | BARRETT |
| 9 September 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Angeles National Forest | YUCCA |
| 9 September 1994 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 110 acres | San Bernardino National Forest | AMETHYST |
| 8 September 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Angeles National Forest | TOP |
| 5 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Los Angeles County Fire Department | not named |
| 5 September 2004 | Smoking | under an acre | Angeles National Forest | PALMER |
| 30 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 3 September 1998 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Angeles National Forest | PADUA |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 16 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Ontario and San Antonio Heights Waiting Station: 10 past producers, 4 occurrences, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Tungsten, Graphite, Clay. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Big Horn Mine | Gemstone | Past Producer | ||
| San Antonio Canyon Corundum | Corundum | Occurrence | ||
| San Gabriel Canyon Area | Gold | Producer | ||
| Unnamed Location | Clay | Unknown | ||
| Upland South Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Barrett Canyon | Graphite | Past Producer | ||
| Eva Canyon | Graphite | Occurrence | ||
| Marble Canyon | Tungsten | Occurrence | ||
| Marble Canyon | Tungsten | Occurrence | ||
| Campus Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
8 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Upland, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 3 flood, 2 wildfire, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2004 | Flash Flood | Upland | $30,000 | no account filed |
| October 2005 | Lightning | Upland | $1,500 | Lightning struck Hillside High School in Upland. A palm tree was ripped up and a few bricks came off of one of the school buildings. A power outage occurred at around the same time in Claremont and affected 1,552 customers. |
| March 2024 | Flood | Upland | - | CalTrans report of flooding near I-10 W and 4th Street. |
| March 2024 | Flood | Upland | - | CalTrans report of flooding in Lanes 1 and 2 of I-10 W near Euclid Ave. |
| May 2019 | Flash Flood | Upland | - | Spotter reported flash flooding and a swift water rescue just north of Upland. It was reported that the vehicle lost control, flipped over and was taking on water. |
| October 1999 | Wildfire | Upland | - | About 70 acres were burned in a brush fire. |
| November 2003 | Wildfire | Upland | - | no account filed |
| April 2000 | Flood | Upland | - | no account filed |
Maps showing this location
22 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.
- 1897 USGS Cucamonga quadrangle1:62500
- 1900 USGS Cucamonga quadrangle1:62500
- 1901 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
- 1903 USGS Cucamonga quadrangle1:62500 - 11 printings
- 1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1933 USGS La Verne and Evey Canyon quadrangle1:24000
- 1933 USGS Ontario quadrangle1:31680
- 1940 USGS Evey Canyon quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1940 USGS Evey Canyon quadrangle1:20000
- 1942 USGS Ontario and Vicinity quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
- 1944 USGS Cucamonga quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Mt. Baldy quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Ontario quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
- 1956 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Mt. Baldy quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
- 1982 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:100000
- 1995 USGS Mount Baldy 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Euclid Avenue | 1.1 miles | 2005 |
 | Maloof Workshop 1 | 3.2 miles | 2010 |
| Sam and Alfreda Maloof Compound | 3.2 miles | 2010 |
| Maloof Guesthouse | 3.2 miles | 2010 |
| Maloof Main House | 3.2 miles | 2010 |
 | Old San Antonio Hospital | 3.7 miles | 1980 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 12000813 in Record Group 79. |
| San Bernardino County | All 98 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.