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Photograph of Fire Station No. 1
Photograph by Farragutful, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Fire Station No. 1

Built in 1955 (modern architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.

From the record

One of 90 National Register listings published here for Riverside County · listed in 2015 · category: Building · built in 1955, modern architecture, by Albert Frey.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 277 N. Indian Canyon Dr., Palm Springs, 92262
  • When was it listed? September 2015
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Architecture of Albert Frey MPS
  • Census division. Palm Springs
  • When was it built? 1955
  • Architectural style. modern architecture
  • Architect. Albert Frey
  • National Register reference number. 15000636 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1901 to 1996

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 95 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Fire Station No. 1, surveyed 1996
Topographic sheet covering Fire Station No. 1, surveyed 1901

Fires near this property

368 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 368 fires within 5 miles of Fire Station No. 1 between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,228 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 27 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/undetermined213
Equipment and vehicle use53
Arson/incendiarism27
Misuse of fire by a minor22
Smoking17
Recreation and ceremony12
Natural8
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Debris and open burning7
Other causes1

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
9 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
8 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use18 acresSan Bernardino National ForestPALM
8 September 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Bernardino National ForestPALM 2
6 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSan Bernardino National ForestWINDY
30 September 2011Naturalunder an acreSan Bernardino National ForestHIDDEN
30 September 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named

Every fire recorded in Riverside County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Fire Station No. 1: 2 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Geothermal, Limestone, General. 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
Chino Canyon DepositsLimestone, GeneralOccurrence
Mineral Canyon Nos. 5-7IronProspect
Palm SpringsGeothermalProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Massey Indian AvenueSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Riverside County

Maps showing this location

16 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
Plaza Theatre0.3 miles2025
Thomas O'Donnell House0.3 miles2011
Palm Springs Desert Museum0.3 miles2016
Desert Golf Course0.3 miles2020
Frey House II0.5 miles2015
Santa Fe Federal Savings and Loan Association0.5 miles2016

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 15000636 in Record Group 79.
Riverside CountyAll 90 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.