Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.
From the record
“The Case Study House No. 28, at 91 Inverness Rd., Thousand Oaks, California, is the only Case Study House in Ventura County. Built during 1965-66, it was listed on the National Register on July 24, 2013.”
Wikipedia article Case Study House No. 28, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 39 National Register listings published here for Ventura County · listed in 2013 · category: Building.
National Register reference number. 13000522 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1900 to 1979
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19001979
Fires near this property
93 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Case Study House No. 28
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 43,266 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 5 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
46
Equipment and vehicle use
19
Arson/incendiarism
5
Smoking
5
Fireworks
4
Misuse of fire by a minor
4
Natural
3
Debris and open burning
3
Power generation/transmission/distribution
2
Other causes
1
Recreation and ceremony
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
3 workings within 5 miles of Case Study House No. 28: 1 occurrence, 1 past producer, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Thousand Oaks, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2000: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 wildfire.
The reports record 2 injuries. 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.
A severe thunderstorm produced strong winds in the community of Thousand Oaks. Twelve power poles were knocked down along Thousand Oaks Boulevard. Six automobiles were struck by these fallen power poles.
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.
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.
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.