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Photograph of Ygnacio Palomares Adobe
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Ygnacio Palomares Adobe

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. 19 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.

From the record

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

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

The listing

  • Listed as. Palomares, Ygnacio, Adobe - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. Corner of Arrow Hwy. and Orange Grove Ave., Pomona, 91767
  • When was it listed? March 1971
  • Category. building
  • Census division. East San Gabriel Valley
  • National Register reference number. 71000156 - 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

1897 to 1982

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Ygnacio Palomares Adobe, surveyed 1982
Topographic sheet covering Ygnacio Palomares Adobe, surveyed 1897

Fires near this property

560 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 560 fires within 5 miles of Ygnacio Palomares Adobe between 1992 and 2020, burning about 911 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 82 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/undetermined300
Arson/incendiarism82
Misuse of fire by a minor45
Equipment and vehicle use44
Smoking43
Debris and open burning16
Power generation/transmission/distribution15
Fireworks7
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony3
Other causes1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
9 September 2005Smokingunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAngeles National ForestROCKY
7 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 September 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
6 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
6 September 1995Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresAngeles National ForestPOWER
5 September 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresLos Angeles County Fire Departmentnot named

Every fire recorded in Los Angeles County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Ygnacio Palomares Adobe: 8 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, Stone, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Lordsburg DepositStoneProducer
Lordsburg DepositStone, DimensionPast Producer
Upland South PitSand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, SilverPast Producer
Pomona Brick CoClayProspectSedimentary
Pomona Brick Co.ClayPast Producer
Unnamed LocationClayUnknown
Claremont PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Upland PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Upland PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Upland PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Los Angeles County

Storms near this property

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pomona, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports in 1998: 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 1998Flash FloodPomona-no account filed
September 1998Thunderstorm WindPomona-no account filed
September 1998Funnel CloudPomona-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Los Angeles County

Maps showing this location

19 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.

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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 71000156 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Los Angeles CountyAll 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.