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One of 32 National Register listings published here for San Luis Obispo County · listed in 2014 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Morro Bay State Park Trailer and Tent Campground
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.
The listing
- Address. 20 State Park Rd., Morro Bay, 93442
- When was it listed? October 2014
- Category. district
- Also known as. National-State Cooperative Program and the CCC in California State Parks MPS
- Census division. North Coast
- Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
- National Register reference number. 14000852 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1897 to 1998The ground this property stands on, surveyed 101 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
126 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 126 fires within 5 miles of Morro Bay State Park Trailer and Tent Campground between 1992 and 2020, burning about 600 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 | 63 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 30 |
| Debris and open burning | 15 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Firearms and explosives use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1992 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | San Luis Obispo Unit | SLU-2856 |
| 6 September 1992 | Smoking | under an acre | San Luis Obispo Unit | SLU-2842 |
| 5 September 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | San Luis Obispo Unit | EMS3CDF/ |
| 29 September 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | San Luis Obispo Unit | P.G.& E. |
| 25 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.5 acres | San Luis Obispo Unit | HIGHWAY |
| 23 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | San Luis Obispo Unit | DORIS AV LOS_OSOS 4 |
| 21 September 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | San Luis Obispo Unit | CUESTA |
| 21 September 2010 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | San Luis Obispo Unit | GILARDI |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 31 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 31 workings within 5 miles of Morro Bay State Park Trailer and Tent Campground: 15 past producers, 7 prospects, 5 producers, 4 occurrences. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Chromium, Copper, Diatomite. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arrisa Mine | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Guerra Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Kester Prospect | Manganese | Occurrence | ||
| Kester Prospect | Manganese | Occurrence | ||
| Morro Rock Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Rodrigues Pit | Stone | Producer | ||
| San Luis Range Diatomite | Diatomite | Past Producer | ||
| The Incello Company | Diatomite | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Alpha Claim | Copper | Prospect |
Storms near this property
2 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Morro Bay, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 1998: 1 funnel cloud, 1 waterspout. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1998 | Funnel Cloud | Morro Bay | - | A spotter in the Morro Bay area reported a funnel cloud. |
| February 1998 | Waterspout | Morro Bay | - | An observer at Morro Bay reported a waterspout two miles north of Morro Rock. |
Maps showing this location
14 surveysUnited 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.
- 1897 USGS Cayucos quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
- 1900 USGS San Luis quadrangle1:125000 - 4 printings
- 1937 USGS Cayucos quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Cayucos quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1947 USGS San Luis Obispo quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS San Luis Obispo quadrangle1:250000
- 1951 USGS Cayucos quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
- 1956 USGS San Luis Obispo quadrangle1:250000 - 5 printings
- 1957 USGS San Luis Obispo quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS San Luis Obispo quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Morro Bay South quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
- 1976 USGS Morro Bay South quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS San Luis Obispo quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings
- 1998 USGS Morro Bay South quadrangle1:24000
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 14000852 in Record Group 79. |
| San Luis Obispo County | All 32 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.