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Photograph of Fort Ord Station Veterinary Hospital
Photograph by Chrismcelwain, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Fort Ord Station Veterinary Hospital

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1913.

From the record

“Fort Ord Station Veterinary Hospital is a former equestrian veterinary complex at Fort Ord in Marina, California, United States. It was built in 1941 on the assumption that horses and mules would continue playing an important role in the United States Army for cavalry, field artillery, and supply packing units during World War II.”

Wikipedia article Fort Ord Station Veterinary Hospital, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 64 National Register listings published here for Monterey County · listed in 2014 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 10 objectss, 6 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 2872 5th Ave., Marina, 93933
  • When was it listed? June 2014
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Seaside-Monterey
  • Architect. United States Army Corps of Engineers
  • National Register reference number. 14000305 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1913 to 1948

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 35 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Fort Ord Station Veterinary Hospital, surveyed 1948
Topographic sheet covering Fort Ord Station Veterinary Hospital, surveyed 1913

Fires near this property

32 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Fort Ord Station Veterinary Hospital between 1995 and 2020, burning about 1,107 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined9
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking3
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism2
Firearms and explosives use2
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
3 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
27 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
25 August 1997Debris and open burning700 acresCentral California DistrictEUCALYPTUS
21 August 2001Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresCentral California DistrictRESERVATION
18 August 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSan Benito-Monterey Unitnot named
6 July 2005Misuse of fire by a minor1.1 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
6 July 2001Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreCentral California DistrictMCLEOD

Every fire recorded in Monterey County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Fort Ord Station Veterinary Hospital: 7 prospects, 6 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
De Ameral-Carmel ValleyStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed MineStonePast Producer
Unnamed MineStonePast Producer
Granite Construction CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionProspectSedimentary
Granite Construction Co.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lapis #110 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Monterey Sand CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionProspectSedimentary
Monterey Sand Co MarinaSand and Gravel, ConstructionProspectSedimentary
Monterey Sand Co.-MarinaSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Monterey Sand Co.-Sand CitySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Monterey County

Storms near this property

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marina, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2017: 1 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 2017HailMarina$10no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monterey County

Maps showing this location

12 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Peter J. Bontadelli House1.9 miles1980
St. John's Chapel, Del Monte6.2 miles2020
Pacific Biological Laboratories6.4 miles1994
U.S. Customhouse6.6 miles1966
First Theater of California6.7 miles1970
Marsh, G.T., and Sons6.8 miles2007

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 14000305 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Monterey CountyAll 64 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.