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Rancho Guajome Adobe
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
“Rancho Guajome Adobe is a historic 19th-century hacienda in Rancho Guajome Adobe County Park, on North Santa Fe Avenue in Vista in San Diego County, California. Built in 1852-53, it is a well-preserved but late example of Spanish-Mexican colonial architecture, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1970.”
Wikipedia article Rancho Guajome Adobe, 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. 70000145 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
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
419 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 419 fires within 5 miles of Rancho Guajome Adobe
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 570 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 60 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
217
Equipment and vehicle use
67
Arson/incendiarism
60
Misuse of fire by a minor
23
Recreation and ceremony
21
Smoking
13
Debris and open burning
12
Natural
4
Power generation/transmission/distribution
2
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
8 September 1995
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
San Diego Unit
WINTERHAVEN
8 September 1995
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
San Diego Unit
BRIDGE
6 September 2017
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
6 September 2016
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
6 September 1995
Recreation and ceremony
4.0 acres
San Diego Unit
GOPHER FIRE
4 September 2009
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
29 September 2008
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
37 workings within 5 miles of Rancho Guajome Adobe: 24 past producers, 11 producers, 2 prospects.
11 still produce. What was taken out: Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Vista, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2000 and 2023: 3 flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 dust devil, 1 flash flood.
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.
A strong dust devil ripped a sign off a fence and threw it 40 feet away over a house. Other debris was seen flying through the air around the dust devil.
Vista Village Drive and High 78 off-ramp completely flooded towards bottom, reported by CHP Caltrans. No rain gauges in Vista, but Palomar-Carlsbad airport had 0.95 inch total and downstream Deer Springs had 1.27 inches.
Many residents in San Diego County awoke during the early morning hours of the 23rd to the sound of heavy rain and thunder as tropical moisture associated with the remnants of former hurricane Emily brought widespread thunderstorms from the desert to the coast. The Cooperative Observer in Vista measured 0.75 inches of rain and reported that lightning had sparked some fires. A nearby trained spotter measured 0.70 inches in 30 minutes. Considerable debris cloudiness would limit thunderstorm activity in San Diego County that afternoon, however much stronger heating and instability to the north triggered severe thunderstorms in Riverside County.
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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