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One of 63 National Register listings published here for San Mateo County · listed in 2014 · category: Structure.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Pilarcitos Creek Bridge
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. 19 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Main St. across Pilarcitos Cr., Half Moon Bay, 94019
- When was it listed? April 2014
- Category. structure
- Also known as. Highway Bridges of California MPS
- Census division. Half Moon Bay
- National Register reference number. 14000110 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1902 to 1997The 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
101 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 101 fires within 5 miles of Pilarcitos Creek Bridge between 1994 and 2020, burning about 64 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 3 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 | 61 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 14 |
| Natural | 8 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
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 1999 | Natural | under an acre | San Mateo-Santa Cruz Unit | SCARPER |
| 9 September 1999 | Natural | under an acre | San Mateo-Santa Cruz Unit | PILARCITOS |
| 28 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | San Mateo-Santa Cruz Unit | MADRONA AV EL_GRANADA |
| 21 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | San Mateo-Santa Cruz Unit | CORAL REEF AV EL_GRANADA |
| 2 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | SAN MATEO |
| 11 September 2017 | Natural | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | MIRAMAR 2-1 |
| 10 September 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | San Mateo-Santa Cruz Unit | BUNKER |
| 10 September 1999 | Natural | under an acre | San Mateo-Santa Cruz Unit | HIGGINS |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 17 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Pilarcitos Creek Bridge: 10 past producers, 6 producers, 1 unknown. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Calcium, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miguel | Granite | Producer | ||
| Miguel | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Pilarcitos Quarry and Plant No. 138 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Vasquez | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Hilltop | Calcium | Producer | ||
| Hilltop | Calcium | Past Producer | ||
| Skyline Quarry | Calcium | Producer | ||
| Skyline Quarry | Calcium | Past Producer | ||
| Canada | Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Canada | Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
3 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Half Moon Bay, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2017: 2 hail, 1 tornado. 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 2017 | Hail | Half Moon Bay | $10 | Spotter reported pea sized hail in Half Moon Bay. Other reports around San Mateo county as well. |
| February 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Half Moon Bay | - | Weak tornado ripped up some trees. Appears it began as a waterspout and moved on shore. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Half Moon Bay | - | no account filed |
Maps showing this location
19 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.
- 1902 USGS Santa Cruz quadrangle1:125000 - 9 printings
- 1940 USGS Halfmoon Bay quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Halfmoon Bay quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1952 USGS Half Moon Bay quadrangle1:24000
- 1955 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
- 1957 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Half Moon Bay quadrangle1:24000 - 6 printings
- 1961 USGS Half Moon Bay quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1961 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Palo Alto quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
- 1985 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1991 USGS Half Moon Bay quadrangle1:24000
- 1997 USGS Half Moon Bay 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | William Adam Simmons House | 0.3 miles | 1992 |
 | Methodist Episcopal Church at Half Moon Bay | 0.4 miles | 1980 |
 | James Johnston House | 1.3 miles | 1973 |
| Robert Mills Dairy Barn | 2.4 miles | 1990 | |
 | Princeton Hotel | 4.0 miles | 1979 |
 | X-100 | 5.8 miles | 2016 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 14000110 in Record Group 79. |
| San Mateo County | All 63 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.