BlockFrom the record
One of 148 National Register listings published here for San Diego County · listed in 1973 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Fages-De Anza Trail-Southern Emigrant Road
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1931.
The listing
- Address. Anza-Borrego State Park, Borrego Springs, 92004
- When was it listed? January 1973
- Category. district
- Census division. Borrego Springs
- National Register reference number. 73002252 - 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.
Fires near this property
9 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Fages-De Anza Trail-Southern Emigrant Road between 2000 and 2020, burning about 8 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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 | 6 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2000 | Natural | under an acre | San Diego Unit | TUBB |
| 6 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | San Diego Unit | BORREGO MEDICAL CENTER BO |
| 23 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | San Diego Unit | ROADRUNNER DR S BORREGO_S |
| 8 July 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 5 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | San Diego Unit | BORREGO VALLEY AIRPORT 7 |
| 7 May 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Southern California Agency | POWERLINE |
| 11 May 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | San Diego Unit | TUBB |
| 17 March 2010 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | 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 Fages-De Anza Trail-Southern Emigrant Road: 2 occurrences, 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Geothermal, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Borrego Springs | Geothermal | Producer | ||
| Borrego Springs Claim | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| Clark Lake Deposits | Silica | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Maps showing this location
14 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.
- 1931 USGS Vallecito quadrangle1:125000
- 1939 USGS Borrego quadrangle1:62500
- 1942 USGS Borego quadrangle1:62500
- 1942 USGS Borrego quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Vallecito quadrangle1:125000
- 1947 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Borrego quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Borrego Sink quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Borrego Valley quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 73002252 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.