Temple Mansion

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1894.

From the record

One of 616 National Register listings published here for Los Angeles County · listed in 1974 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 structuress, 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 15415 E. Don Julian Rd., Industry, 91745
When was it listed? December 1974
Category. building
Census division. East San Gabriel Valley
National Register reference number. 74000518 - 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

1894 to 1982

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Temple Mansion, surveyed 1982

Topographic sheet covering Temple Mansion, surveyed 1894

Fires near this property

403 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 403 fires within 5 miles of Temple Mansion between 2005 and 2020, burning about 357 acres in total. None started naturally. 45 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	251
Arson/incendiarism	45
Equipment and vehicle use	36
Smoking	30
Misuse of fire by a minor	24
Debris and open burning	16
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
9 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
7 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
7 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
6 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
4 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
4 September 2008	Smoking	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
4 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
4 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named

Every fire recorded in Los Angeles County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Temple Mansion: 6 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Calcium. 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	Recorded
City of Industry Plant	Calcium	Producer
W. H. Russell	Clay	Occurrence
Durbin Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Durbin Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
El Monte Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
J. A. Houlihan Property	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Prospect
Lindauer Corp	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Lindauer Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Murphy Ranch	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Murphy Ranch	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Los Angeles County

Maps showing this location

16 surveys

United 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.

1894 USGS Pomona quadrangle1:62500
1897 USGS Pomona quadrangle1:62500
1898 USGS Pomona quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1901 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
1904 USGS Pomona quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1927 USGS Puente quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1953 USGS Baldwin Park quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1953 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Baldwin Park quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
1966 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:100000

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
Workman Adobe	under 500 feet	1974
Workman Family Cemetery	0.2 miles	1974
La Puente Valley Woman's Club	0.8 miles	1999
John A. Rowland House	0.8 miles	1973
Jonathan Bailey House	4.5 miles	1977
National Bank of Whittier Building	5.0 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74000518 in Record Group 79.
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.