Federal Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015. 15 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 2015 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 15000 Aviation Blvd., Hawthorne, 90250
When was it listed? April 2015
Category. building
Census division. Inglewood
Architectural style. modern architecture
National Register reference number. 15000169 - 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 Federal Building, surveyed 1901

Topographic sheet covering Federal Building, surveyed 1896

Fires near this property

242 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 242 fires within 5 miles of Federal Building between 2005 and 2020, burning about 168 acres in total. None started naturally. 14 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	162
Smoking	33
Arson/incendiarism	14
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Debris and open burning	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	10

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 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 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
24 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
24 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
22 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
20 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Los Angeles County Fire Department	not named
17 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Los Angeles County Fire Department	not named

Every fire recorded in Los Angeles 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 Federal Building: 12 past producers, 3 producers, 1 plant, 1 occurrence. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Silica, Clay, Titanium, Metal, Lead. 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	Recorded
Burdick Minerals Corp.	Titanium, Lead	Past Producer
Redondo Beach Chalcedony	Semiprecious Gemstone	Occurrence
Unnamed Quarry	Lead, Silver, Zinc	Past Producer
Clifton	Titanium, Metal	Producer
Clifton-Redondo Placer	Titanium, Metal	Producer	Ilmenite
Torrance B Plant Ti	Titanium, Metal	Plant
Builders Brick Co.	Clay	Past Producer
Coast Brick Co.	Clay	Past Producer
Higgins Brick & Tile Co.-Gardena	Clay	Past Producer
Material Yard	Clay	Producer

Every working recorded in Los Angeles County

Maps showing this location

15 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 Torrance quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1934 USGS Torrance quadrangle1:20000
1934 USGS Torrance quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1943 USGS San Pedro quadrangle1:125000
1944 USGS Redondo quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Long Beach quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1950 USGS Venice quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Long Beach quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1958 USGS Long Beach quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Long Beach quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1964 USGS Venice 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
Hangar One	2.7 miles	1992
El Segundo Woman's Club	2.8 miles	2023
Sweetser Residence	3.3 miles	1985
Redondo Beach Original Townsite Historic District	3.4 miles	1988
Diamond Apartments	3.6 miles	1992
Redondo Beach Public Library	4.1 miles	1981

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 15000169 in Record Group 79.
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.