Warner's Ranch

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“Warner's Ranch, near Warner Springs, California, was notable as a way station for large numbers of emigrants on the Southern Emigrant Trail from 1849 to 1861, as it was a stop on both the Gila River Trail and the Butterfield Overland Mail stagecoach line (1859-1861). It was also operated as a pioneering cattle ranch.”
Wikipedia article Warner's Ranch, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 148 National Register listings published here for San Diego County · listed in 1966 · category: Building · a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. 4 mi. S of Warner Springs, Warner Springs, 92086
When was it listed? October 1966
Category. building
Census division. Palomar-Julian
National Register reference number. 66000228 - 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

1903 to 1904

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 1 year apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Warner's Ranch, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheet covering Warner's Ranch, surveyed 1903

Fires near this property

86 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Warner's Ranch between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,985 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 8 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	28
Equipment and vehicle use	22
Natural	15
Debris and open burning	10
Arson/incendiarism	8
Smoking	1
Fireworks	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
7 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	California Desert District	EAST
6 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	WARNERS 3
3 September 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	San Diego Unit	SEVENTY-NINE
29 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	San Diego Unit	HOLE
29 September 1993	Debris and open burning	51 acres	Southern California Agency	MORETTIS
25 September 1994	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Southern California Agency	MORRETTI#2
2 September 2003	Natural	1.1 acres	San Diego Unit	TREE
18 September 1994	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Southern California Agency	MEANS

Every fire recorded in San Diego County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Warner's Ranch: 5 occurrences, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Tungsten, Gold, Geothermal. 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	Recorded
Black Hawk Group	Gold	Occurrence
Warners Hot Springs	Geothermal	Producer
Bartling & Nelson Deposit	Tungsten	Occurrence
Bartling and Nelson Deposit	Tungsten	Occurrence	Scheelite
Los Coyotes Prospect	Tungsten	Occurrence	Scheelite
San Jose Del Valle Mine	Tungsten	Unknown
Unnamed Deposit	Tungsten	Occurrence

Every working recorded in San Diego County

Maps showing this location

13 surveys

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.

1903 USGS Ramona quadrangle1:125000 - 6 printings
1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 2 quadrangle1:250000 - 5 printings
1939 USGS Santa Ysabel quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1943 USGS Santa Ysabel quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1960 USGS Santa Ysabel quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1960 USGS Warners Ranch quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
1965 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Borrego Valley quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 66000228 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
San Diego County	All 148 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.