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One of 148 National Register listings published here for San Diego County · listed in 1973 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Brick Row
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 10 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. A Ave. between 9th and 10th Sts., National City, 91950
- When was it listed? July 1973
- Category. building
- Census division. San Diego
- National Register reference number. 73000431 - 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 1996The 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.
Fires near this property
442 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 442 fires within 5 miles of Brick Row between 1994 and 2020, burning about 239 acres in total. None started naturally. 98 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 | 246 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 98 |
| Debris and open burning | 37 |
| Smoking | 27 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 20 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 10 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | San Diego Unit | not named |
| 9 September 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | San Diego Unit | not named |
| 9 September 2005 | Smoking | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 8 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 7 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | San Diego Unit | not named |
| 7 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | San Diego Unit | not named |
| 7 September 2007 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 7 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Brick Row: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Salt, Clay, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| National Brick Company | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Sweetwater Sand Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Chollas Valley Salt Co. | Salt | Past Producer | ||
| Sweetwater Creek | Salt | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
2 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names National City, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2019 and 2022: 1 flash flood, 1 hail. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2022 | Hail | National City | $10,000 | Hail of pea size (0.25 inch) to 0.5 inch in diameter, with hail covering the road on Coronado. Accidents reported on Highway-75 between Nab Coronado and Leyte Road on the Silver Strand (Beach Highway). One vehicle flipped. |
| November 2019 | Flash Flood | National City | - | Swift water rescue occurred in National City. |
Maps showing this location
12 surveysUnited States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, 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
- 1944 USGS National City quadrangle1:31680
- 1950 USGS San Diego quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS National City quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1954 USGS San Diego quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS San Diego quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS San Diego quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
- 1967 USGS National City quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
- 1979 USGS San Diego quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings
- 1996 USGS National City quadrangle1:24000
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther 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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | St. Matthew's Episcopal Church | 0.3 miles | 1973 |
 | Station and General Office, California Southern Railroad | 1.1 miles | 1996 |
 | Granger Hall | 1.1 miles | 1975 |
 | Chicano Park | 2.9 miles | |
 | Villa Montezuma | 3.3 miles | 1971 |
 | Alfred Haines House | 3.4 miles | 1992 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 73000431 in Record Group 79. |
| 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.