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Los Cerritos Ranch House
A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1896.
From the record
“Los Cerritos Ranch House, also known as Rancho Los Cerritos or Casa de los Cerritos, in Long Beach, California, United States, was "the largest and most impressive adobe residence erected in southern California during the Mexican period". Los Cerritos means "the little hills" in English.”
Wikipedia article Los Cerritos Ranch House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 616 National Register listings published here for Los Angeles County · listed in 1970 · category: Building · a National Historic Landmark.
National Register reference number.70000135- 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
1896 to 1901
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
5 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
18961901
Fires near this property
324 since 2005
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 324 fires within 5 miles of Los Cerritos Ranch House
between 2005 and 2020, burning about 3,805 acres in total. None started naturally. 24 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
219
Smoking
30
Arson/incendiarism
24
Equipment and vehicle use
23
Debris and open burning
13
Misuse of fire by a minor
12
Recreation and ceremony
1
Railroad operations and maintenance
1
Power generation/transmission/distribution
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 2019
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Los Angeles County Fire Department
not named
8 September 2008
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
7 September 2009
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1.0 acres
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
6 September 2007
Equipment and vehicle use
1.0 acres
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
4 September 2005
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
30 September 2007
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1.0 acres
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
28 September 2007
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
27 September 2007
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
1 working within 5 miles of Los Cerritos Ranch House: 1 producer.
All of them still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, Dimension. 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
Long Beach, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1998 and 2004: 3 flood, 2 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 funnel cloud.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
A small tornado swept through eastern sections of Long Beach. The tornado developed over Los Altos Park and travelled northeast to Studebaker Road. The most significant damage occurred to a Lucky's Supermarket where a 60 foot by 60 foot section of their roof collapsed. Also...Cubberley Elementary School lost a section of its roof. Other minor damage occurred from fallen trees and power lines. One minor injury was reported.
The combination of heavy rain and clogged storm drains resulted in urban flooding in the community of Long Beach. The Long Beach Freeway (Interstate 710) was closed for 6 hours between Willow Street and Pacific Coast Highway.
Strong thunderstorm winds produced damage across parts of the Long Beach area. At a car dealership, the roof of a couple of service bays was blown off. Next door, a 600 square-foot section of roof was torn off a aircraft instrument company.
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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