A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1913.
From the record
“The Old Custom House is the oldest surviving government building in California, built in 1827 by Mexican authorities in Monterey, then the capital of Alta California. The former custom house is the first designated California Historical Landmark, marking the site where U.S.”
Wikipedia article Old Custom House (Monterey, California), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 64 National Register listings published here for Monterey County · listed in 1966 · category: Building · a National Historic Landmark.
National Register reference number.66000217- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Then and now
1913 to 1997
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.
19131997
Fires near this property
365 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 365 fires within 5 miles of U.S. Customhouse
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 514 acres in total. 4 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
192
Equipment and vehicle use
53
Smoking
35
Misuse of fire by a minor
24
Arson/incendiarism
22
Recreation and ceremony
16
Power generation/transmission/distribution
10
Debris and open burning
9
Natural
4
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 2017
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
32 workings within 5 miles of U.S. Customhouse: 16 past producers, 11 producers, 5 prospects.
11 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Slate, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
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.
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