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Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1896.

From the record

One of 616 National Register listings published here for Los Angeles County · listed in 2014 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Address. 3900 Manchester Blvd., Inglewood, 90305
When was it listed? September 2014
Category. building
Census division. Inglewood
Architect. Charles Luckman
National Register reference number. 14000661 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1896 to 1901

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 5 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Forum, surveyed 1901

Topographic sheet covering Forum, surveyed 1896

Fires near this property

296 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 296 fires within 5 miles of Forum between 2005 and 2020, burning about 190 acres in total. None started naturally. 18 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	201
Smoking	42
Equipment and vehicle use	18
Arson/incendiarism	18
Debris and open burning	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	7

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 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
9 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
7 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
5 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Los Angeles County Fire Department	not named
5 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
3 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Los Angeles County Fire Department	not named
27 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
27 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named

Every fire recorded in Los Angeles County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Forum: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Silica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Walter D. Ransom	Silica	Past Producer
City Brick Co. Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Independent Brick Co. Pit and Plant	Clay	Past Producer
Material Yard	Clay	Producer
Simmons Brick Co.-Inglewood Plant	Clay	Past Producer
Standard Brick Co.-Inglewood Yard	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Los Angeles County

Storms near this property

1 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Inglewood, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2004: 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
December 2004	Tornado (F0)	Inglewood	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Los Angeles County

Maps showing this location

16 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1896 USGS Redondo quadrangle1:62500 - 9 printings
1901 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1924 USGS Inglewood quadrangle1:24000
1930 USGS Inglewood quadrangle1:24000
1943 USGS San Pedro quadrangle1:125000
1944 USGS Redondo quadrangle1:62500
1948 USGS Inglewood quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS Long Beach quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1950 USGS Inglewood quadrangle1:24000
1952 USGS Inglewood quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Long Beach quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1958 USGS Long Beach quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Long Beach quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1964 USGS Inglewood quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1981 USGS Long Beach quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Fox Theatre Inglewood	0.7 miles	2013
Centinela Adobe	1.8 miles	1974
Angelus Mesa Branch	2.7 miles	1987
View Park Historic District	3.0 miles	2016
Hangar One	3.0 miles	1992
John Muir Branch	3.3 miles	1987

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 14000661 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Los Angeles County	All 616 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.