A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. 17 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.
From the record
“Mission San Luis Rey de Francia is a former Spanish mission in San Luis Rey, a neighborhood in Oceanside, California. This Mission lent its name to the Luiseño tribe of Mission Indians.”
Wikipedia article Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 148 National Register listings published here for San Diego County · listed in 1970 · category: Building · a National Historic Landmark.
National Register reference number.70000142- 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
1893 to 1997
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
104 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
18931997
Fires near this property
184 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 184 fires within 5 miles of San Luis Rey Mission Church
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,477 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 29 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
106
Arson/incendiarism
29
Equipment and vehicle use
19
Smoking
11
Misuse of fire by a minor
9
Debris and open burning
6
Recreation and ceremony
3
Natural
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 2011
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
San Diego Unit
not named
6 September 2016
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
4 September 2020
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
San Diego Unit
GUNSHOT INJURIES
28 September 2005
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
27 September 2009
Smoking
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
26 September 2020
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
San Diego Unit
not named
26 September 2016
Smoking
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
22 workings within 5 miles of San Luis Rey Mission Church: 17 past producers, 5 producers.
5 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Oceanside, the town this property stands in, in 28 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 5 funnel cloud, 5 flood, 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 heavy rain.
The reports record 2 deaths and 8 injuries. 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.
In Oceanside, lots of small branches and pots were knocked over and a 12 foot shed was tossed approximately 100 feet, based on where it was located originally and the scrape marks where it landed on the street. At least two vehicles were damaged, one with a side mirror damaged by the shed and another had a large tree limb approximately 4 to 6 inches in diameter that broke the window. At least six screens were knocked off on the windows of the homes. And very unique damage done by pinecones from large trees just to the west which left large scrape marks on the side of stucco. Based on the damage, winds are estimated to be 45 to 50 mph in the localized three or four block area.|Downed trees were blocking the roadway on Via de Santa Fe and large palm tree branches were in the number 4 lane of southbound Interstate 5 at Harbor Drive according to California Highway Patrol.
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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