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One of 98 National Register listings published here for San Bernardino County · listed in 2015 · category: Structure.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Judson and Brown Ditch
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1899.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. Crosses San Bernardino FCD Rd., Redlands, 92359
- When was it listed? September 2015
- Category. structure
- Census division. San Bernardino
- National Register reference number. 15000646 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1899 to 1996The ground this property stands on, surveyed 97 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
490 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 490 fires within 5 miles of Judson and Brown Ditch between 1992 and 2020, burning about 13,849 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 60 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 | 184 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 119 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 60 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 51 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 21 |
| Smoking | 16 |
| Natural | 15 |
| Debris and open burning | 12 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 8 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Firearms and explosives use | 2 |
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 2012 | Natural | under an acre | California Desert District | CONE |
| 9 September 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | San Bernardino Unit | ROSA |
| 9 September 1996 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | San Bernardino National Forest | GREEN |
| 8 September 2012 | Natural | 57 acres | California Desert District | GREENSPOT |
| 8 September 2002 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | San Bernardino Unit | HAMMONS |
| 6 September 2008 | Other causes | 125 acres | California Desert District | GARNET |
| 6 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | San Bernardino Unit | EMERALD AV / NEWPORT AV 2 |
| 4 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | San Bernardino Unit | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
7 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Judson and Brown Ditch: 7 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Flagstone. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mentone Sandstone | Flagstone | Past Producer | ||
| Old Webster Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Pacific Rock and Gravel Co | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Redlands | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Redlands Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Redlands Pit No. 1 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Redlands Pit No. 2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
2 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Redlands, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1998 and 2004: 1 heavy rain, 1 flash flood. The reports record 4 injuries. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 1998 | Heavy Rain | Redlands | 4 hurt | no account filed |
| October 2004 | Flash Flood | Redlands | $700,000 | Water overflowed the banks of the Mill Creek Zanja flood channel, causing an estimated $700,000 in damage to the flood channel and surrounding areas near Sylvan Park and the University of Redlands. |
Maps showing this location
15 surveysUnited 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.
- 1899 USGS Redlands quadrangle1:62500
- 1901 USGS Redlands 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
- 1953 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Redlands quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Yucaipa quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1956 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Yucaipa quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
- 1982 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:100000
- 1996 USGS Yucaipa quadrangle1:24000
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Mill Creek Zanja | 2.9 miles | 1977 |
 | Redlands Central Railway Company Car Barn | 5.2 miles | 1991 |
 | Redlands Santa Fe Depot District | 5.5 miles | 1991 |
 | A. K. Smiley Public Library | 5.7 miles | 1976 |
| City Transfer and Storage Company Warehouse | 5.7 miles | 2023 | |
 | US Post Office-Redlands Main | 5.8 miles | 1985 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 15000646 in Record Group 79. |
| San Bernardino County | All 98 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.