Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. 19 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1894.
From the record
“The Rockhaven Sanitarium Historic District is located in the Crescenta Valley at 2713 Honolulu Avenue in what is now the City of Glendale, California, United States. The sanitarium for which it is named was opened in 1923 by psychiatric nurse Agnes Richards as a private mental health institution for women with mild mental and nervous disorders.”
Wikipedia article Rockhaven Sanitarium Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 616 National Register listings published here for Los Angeles County · listed in 2016 · category: District.
National Register reference number. 16000355 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1894 to 1995
The 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.
18941995
Fires near this property
207 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 207 fires within 5 miles of Rockhaven Sanitarium Historic District
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 169,014 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 22 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
84
Equipment and vehicle use
56
Arson/incendiarism
22
Recreation and ceremony
15
Smoking
7
Debris and open burning
7
Natural
5
Power generation/transmission/distribution
4
Fireworks
4
Misuse of fire by a minor
3
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 2004
Equipment and vehicle use
under an acre
Angeles National Forest
STRATUS
6 September 2016
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Angeles National Forest
HAINES
5 September 1996
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1.0 acres
Angeles National Forest
TUNA
3 September 2004
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Angeles National Forest
MALIBU
3 September 2001
Debris and open burning
under an acre
Angeles National Forest
TWIN
3 September 2001
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Angeles National Forest
OCEAN
3 September 1997
Arson/incendiarism
under an acre
Angeles National Forest
BAYTREE
29 September 2005
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1,012 acres
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
13 workings within 5 miles of Rockhaven Sanitarium Historic District: 7 past producers, 3 producers, 2 prospects, 1 occurrence.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Graphite, Granite, Silica. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Glendale, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1997 and 2008: 1 dust devil, 1 wildfire, 1 flash flood.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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