Hotel Del Coronado

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

“The Hotel del Coronado, also known as The Del and Hotel Del, is a historic beachfront hotel in Coronado, California, just across San Diego Bay from San Diego. A rare surviving example of an American architectural genre - the wooden Victorian beach resort - it was designated a California Historical Landmark in 1970 and a National Historic Landmark in 1977.”
Wikipedia article Hotel del Coronado, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 148 National Register listings published here for San Diego County · listed in 1971 · category: Building · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

Address. 1500 Orange Ave., Coronado, 92118
When was it listed? October 1971
Category. building
Census division. San Diego
Architectural style. Victorian architecture
Architect. Katherine Olivia Sessions, Reid & Reid
National Register reference number. 71000181 - 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

1904 to 1996

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.

Topographic sheet covering Hotel Del Coronado, surveyed 1996

Topographic sheet covering Hotel Del Coronado, surveyed 1904

Fires near this property

161 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 161 fires within 5 miles of Hotel Del Coronado between 2001 and 2020, burning about 48 acres in total. None 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	100
Arson/incendiarism	29
Debris and open burning	11
Smoking	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Recreation and ceremony	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
7 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	San Diego Unit	not named
25 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.4 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
25 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
23 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
2 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.6 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
17 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	San Diego Unit	not named
16 September 2018	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
16 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named

Every fire recorded in San Diego County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Hotel Del Coronado: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	San Diego Molding Sand Co.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in San Diego County

Storms near this property

9 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coronado, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 3 flash flood, 2 rip current, 2 funnel cloud, 1 lightning. The reports record 2 deaths. 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
August 2000	Rip Current	Coronado	1 killed	no account filed
August 2000	Rip Current	Coronado	1 killed	no account filed
December 2018	Flash Flood	Coronado	$25,000	Broadcast media reported that the Alpha Project Bridge Shelter in East Village San Diego closed for a week due to flooding from the heavy rain.
January 2024	Flash Flood	Coronado	-	Trained spotter report of 6 inches of water flowing over a roadway 30 feet wide. Water was up to the bumpers of cars.
January 2024	Flood	Coronado	-	Village Elementary School on Coronado had floodwater several inches deep occur indoors. County officials evacuated students around midday from the ground floor to upstairs classrooms. At least 16 businesses on Orange Avenue sustained flood damage. The PAWS of Coronado animal shelter was flooded, and animals were removed from the garage and transported to other locations. Sewer systems were severely impacted, and residents in the County Club area were urged to not conduct any activity that would discharge water into the drainage system.
March 2020	Funnel Cloud	Coronado	-	Coronado Lifeguards reported 2 funnel clouds/waterspouts off the coast of Coronado on March 19th.
December 2010	Flash Flood	Coronado	-	Street flooding in Coronado. Both Northbound lanes on Orange Avenue have 3 to 4 inches of water on the roadway. There was 6 to 7 inches of water on 1st Street near the ferry landing as well.
March 2008	Funnel Cloud	Coronado	-	A trained weather spotter reported a funnel cloud southwest of Balboa Park. The exact location has been estimated.
August 2000	Lightning	Coronado	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in San Diego County

Maps showing this location

12 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.

1904 USGS San Diego quadrangle1:62500 - 9 printings
1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 2 quadrangle1:250000 - 5 printings
1930 USGS San Diego quadrangle1:62500
1942 USGS Point Loma quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1950 USGS San Diego quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Point Loma quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS San Diego quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS San Diego quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS San Diego quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1967 USGS Point Loma quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
1979 USGS San Diego quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings
1996 USGS Point Loma quadrangle1:24000

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
Heilman Villas	0.7 miles	1992
Rockwell Field	1.5 miles	1991
San Diego Rowing Club	1.9 miles	1979
RENOWN (yacht)	2.1 miles	2012
City of San Diego Police Headquarters, Jails and Courts	2.1 miles	1998
U.S. Courthouse	2.4 miles	1975

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 71000181 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
San Diego County	All 148 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.