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Fort Tejon
Built in 1954. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.
From the record
“Fort Tejon in California is a former United States Army outpost which was intermittently active from June 24, 1854, until September 11, 1864. It is located in the Grapevine Canyon between the San Emigdio Mountains and Tehachapi Mountains.”
Wikipedia article Fort Tejon, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 23 National Register listings published here for Kern County · listed in 1971 · category: District · built in 1954.
National Register reference number.71000140- 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 1995
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19031995
Fires near this property
151 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 151 fires within 5 miles of Fort Tejon
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 19,844 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 6 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
92
Equipment and vehicle use
27
Misuse of fire by a minor
9
Natural
6
Arson/incendiarism
6
Smoking
3
Fireworks
2
Other causes
2
Power generation/transmission/distribution
2
Recreation and ceremony
1
Debris and open burning
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 2020
Equipment and vehicle use
under an acre
Kern County Fire Department
not named
4 September 2016
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
3.3 acres
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
29 September 2020
Equipment and vehicle use
under an acre
Kern County Fire Department
not named
25 September 2016
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
7 workings within 5 miles of Fort Tejon: 5 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Lebec, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 6 debris flow, 4 flood, 3 heavy rain, 3 wildfire.
The reports record 1 death. 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 heavy rain, a car hydroplaned off Interstate-5 near Lebec into a swollen creek adjacent to the road. Before a rescue could be accomplished one of the vehicle's occupants was swept downstream.
The Tejon Fire burned 1155 acres in the Tehachapi Mountains of Kern County at a cost of $1.59M. One travel trailer was destroyed but no fatalities occurred.
Localized flooding was reported by the California Highway Patrol around Lebec, Ca. This was due in part to heavy rain in the area during the day, with the COOP station in Lebec receiving 1.48 inches of rainfall. However, the area had received some of the most rainfall earlier in the month so very moist antecedent conditions exist as well.
The Pump Fire was fought by Kern County Fire Department and burned 747 acres. Its cost and cause is unknown but no fatalities occurred nor were any structures lost.
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.
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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