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Photograph of Cypress Street Schoolhouse
Photograph by DiyaCali, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Cypress Street Schoolhouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015. 20 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1896.

From the record

“The Cypress Street Schoolhouse, also known simply as Cypress Schoolhouse, is a historic former elementary school building in Orange, California built in 1931. It is a one story structure built in classic Spanish Colonial Revival architecture with stucco walls and a clay tile roof.”

Wikipedia article Cypress Street Schoolhouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 136 National Register listings published here for Orange County · listed in 2015 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
  • Address. 544 N. Cypress St., Orange, 92868
  • When was it listed? July 2015
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Latinos in 20th Century California MPS; Latinos in 20th Century California MPS; Latinos in 20th Century California MPS
  • Census division. Anaheim-Santa Ana-Garden Grove
  • National Register reference number. 15000380 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1896 to 1983

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Cypress Street Schoolhouse, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet covering Cypress Street Schoolhouse, surveyed 1896

Fires near this property

200 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 200 fires within 5 miles of Cypress Street Schoolhouse between 1998 and 2020, burning about 6,200 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 25 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/undetermined116
Arson/incendiarism25
Equipment and vehicle use21
Misuse of fire by a minor16
Smoking11
Debris and open burning7
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
6 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOrange County Fire Authoritynot named
6 September 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
30 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOrange County Fire Authoritynot named
30 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
27 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
26 September 2010Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
26 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
24 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 28 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Cypress Street Schoolhouse: 22 past producers, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Mercury, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Calcium. 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
Garber Brickk & Tile Co.ClayPast Producer
Red Hill MineMercury, Barium-BaritePast Producer
Santa Ana PlantCalciumProducer
Bixby PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Orange QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Red Hill MineMercuryPast Producer1927
Blue Diamond PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Consolidated Rock Products Co.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Cunningham and SonSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Garden Grove Sand & Gravel Co.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Orange County

Storms near this property

3 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Orange, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports in 2001: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2001Tornado (F0)Orange$50,000Witnesses reported hearing a loud roaring sound like a freight train, followed by 45 seconds of intense wind and heavy rain. A funnel cloud was sighted in the area following the wind damage. Damage consisted of roof shingles, skylights, and metal awnings being ripped off six structures, two 10 ft. by 15 ft. roll-up doors being blown in, several wooden fences knocked down, as well as telephone wires. An NWS meteorologist conducting a damage survey noted a cyclonic pattern in the debris.
February 2001Thunderstorm WindOrange$25,000no account filed
February 2001Thunderstorm WindOrange-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Orange County

Maps showing this location

20 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
Lydia D. Killefer School0.1 miles2015
Santiago Orange Growers Association Packing House0.3 miles2022
Orange Intermediate School-Central Grammar School0.3 miles1993
Orange Union High School0.4 miles1975
Plaza, The0.6 miles1978
Plaza Historic District0.6 miles1982

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 15000380 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Orange CountyAll 136 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.