Lompoc Veterans Memorial Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1905.

From the record

One of 38 National Register listings published here for Santa Barbara County · listed in 2016 · category: Site.

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. 100 E. Locust Ave., Lompoc, 93436
When was it listed? September 2016
Category. site
Census division. Lompoc
National Register reference number. 16000664 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1905 to 1989

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 84 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Lompoc Veterans Memorial Building, surveyed 1989

Topographic sheet covering Lompoc Veterans Memorial Building, surveyed 1905

Fires near this property

52 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Lompoc Veterans Memorial Building between 2005 and 2020, burning about 2,258 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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	41
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Debris and open burning	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Smoking	1

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
8 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Santa Barbara County Fire Department	not named
29 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.9 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
29 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	888 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
28 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.4 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
23 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
17 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Santa Barbara County Fire Department	not named
23 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
20 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	490 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named

Every fire recorded in Santa Barbara County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Lompoc Veterans Memorial Building: 11 past producers, 7 producers, 2 occurrences, 1 unknown. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Diatomite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Dimension. 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
Acin Quarry	Flagstone	Producer
L.S. Hawley Co.	Stone	Producer
Las Cruces Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer
Lind Deposit	Limestone, Dimension	Unknown
Sanford Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Producer
Tolbert Pit	Stone, Dimension	Past Producer
Dr. Mosby Lompoc Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Gann Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Miguelito Canyon Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Santa Barbara County

Storms near this property

2 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lompoc, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1998 and 2006: 1 flood, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
March 2006	Tornado (F0)	Lompoc	-	A weak tornado touched down in the community of Lompoc. The small tornado touched down in a parking lot of strip mall along North H street. No significant damage was reported.
April 1998	Flood	Lompoc	-	Heavy rain in the Lompoc area produced localized street flooding.

Every storm recorded in Santa Barbara County

Maps showing this location

15 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.

1905 USGS Lompoc quadrangle1:125000 - 7 printings
1942 USGS Lompoc quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1942 USGS Lompoc quadrangle1:125000
1943 USGS Lompoc quadrangle1:125000
1947 USGS Lompoc quadrangle1:24000
1947 USGS Lompoc quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Santa Maria quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Santa Maria quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Santa Maria quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Santa Maria quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Lompoc quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1959 USGS Lompoc quadrangle1:24000 - 6 printings
1962 USGS Santa Maria quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Santa Maria quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1989 USGS Santa Maria quadrangle1:250000

Listed places nearby

4 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
Mission de la Purisima Concepcion de Maria Santisima Site	under 500 feet	1978
Lompoc Public Library	0.3 miles	1990
La Purisima Mission	3.6 miles	1970
Mission La Purísima at 'Amuwu District	4.2 miles	2023

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 16000664 in Record Group 79.
Santa Barbara County	All 38 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.