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Will Rogers House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“Will Rogers State Historic Park is a California State Historic Park in the Santa Monica Mountains, in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles. The 186-acre (75 ha) park was established in 1944 to preserve the estate of American humorist Will Rogers, including his ranch and the surrounding countryside.”
Wikipedia article Will Rogers State Historic Park, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 616 National Register listings published here for Los Angeles County · listed in 1971 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Listed as. Rogers, Will, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 14253 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, 90272
When was it listed? February 1971
Category. building
Census division. Los Angeles
National Register reference number. 71000149 - 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 1979

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 76 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Will Rogers House, surveyed 1979

Topographic sheet covering Will Rogers House, surveyed 1903

Fires near this property

52 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Will Rogers House between 1999 and 2020, burning about 1,549 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 was 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	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Smoking	5
Debris and open burning	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Natural	1
Other causes	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Arson/incendiarism	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	6.7 acres	Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area	TOPANGA
8 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Los Angeles County Fire Department	TOPANGA 2
5 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22 acres	Los Angeles County Fire Department	not named
5 September 2011	Misuse of fire by a minor	40 acres	Los Angeles County Fire Department	not named
30 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area	CALVARY
16 September 2019	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Los Angeles County Fire Department	not named
15 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area	RUSTIC
22 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area	BRONCO

Every fire recorded in Los Angeles 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 Will Rogers House: 7 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Limestone, General, Flagstone. 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
Santa Ynez Canyon Quarry	Flagstone	Past Producer
Santa Ynez Deposits	Limestone, General	Past Producer
Acme Brick Co. Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Gladding-Mcbean-Santa Monica Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Santa Monica Brick Co.	Clay	Past Producer
Simons Brick Co.-Santa Monica Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Western Brick Co.	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Los Angeles County

Storms near this property

8 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Los Angeles, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2000 and 2026: 3 flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 high wind, 1 tornado. The reports record 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
March 2023	Tornado (EF1)	East Los Angeles	1 hurt	A weak tornado developed in the community of Montebello. The EF1 tornado impacted the area around the intersection of Washington Boulevard and Maple Avenue. There was substantial damage to the industrial warehouse and commercial business district, including nearly total roof collapse in one building and a total of 17 damaged structures. Numerous vehicles were damaged due to flying debris.
February 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Los Angeles	1 hurt	no account filed
February 2026	Flood	Los Angeles	-	Heavy rain produced significant roadway flooding on Interstate 110 near West 39th Street.
February 2026	Flash Flood	Los Angeles	-	Heavy rainfall generated flash flooding near the intersection of Interstates 10 and 110.
February 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Los Angeles	-	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down several trees in the South Los Angeles area.
March 2002	High Wind	Los Angeles	-	no account filed
February 2000	Flood	Los Angeles	-	no account filed
April 2000	Flood	Los Angeles	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Los Angeles 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 Calabasas quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1903 USGS Camulos quadrangle1:125000 - 5 printings
1928 USGS Topanga Canyon quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1944 USGS Calabasas quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1952 USGS Topanga quadrangle1:24000 - 8 printings
1955 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1966 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1976 USGS Topanga quadrangle1:24000
1979 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Topanga quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Morris S. and Nadine E. Frankel House	1.4 miles	2025
Case Study House No. 9	1.6 miles	2013
Case Study House No. 18	1.6 miles	2013
Isaac Milbank House	1.8 miles	2023
Eames House	1.8 miles	2006
Henry Weaver House	1.9 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 71000149 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Los Angeles County	All 616 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.
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.