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Photograph of El Campo Santo Cemetery
Photograph by Bruce Boehner, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Workman Family Cemetery

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

From the record

“El Campo Santo is a cemetery located at the Workman and Temple Family Homestead Museum, 15415 East Don Julian Road, in City of Industry, California.”

Wikipedia article El Campo Santo, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 15415 E. Don Julian Rd., Industry, 91745
  • When was it listed? November 1974
  • Category. structure
  • Census division. East San Gabriel Valley
  • National Register reference number. 74000520 - 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 Workman Family Cemetery, surveyed 1982
Topographic sheet covering Workman Family Cemetery, surveyed 1894

Fires near this property

398 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 398 fires within 5 miles of Workman Family Cemetery between 2005 and 2020, burning about 355 acres in total. None started naturally. 46 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/undetermined245
Arson/incendiarism46
Equipment and vehicle use35
Smoking31
Misuse of fire by a minor25
Debris and open burning15
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
8 September 2009Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
6 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
4 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
4 September 2008Smokingunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
4 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot 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 Workman Family Cemetery: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
City of Industry PlantCalciumProducer
W. H. RussellClayOccurrence
Durbin PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Durbin PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
El Monte PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
J. A. Houlihan PropertySand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect
Lindauer CorpSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Lindauer DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Murphy RanchSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Murphy RanchSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Workman Adobe0.1 miles1974
Temple Mansion0.2 miles1974
John A. Rowland House0.6 miles1973
La Puente Valley Woman's Club0.7 miles1999
Jonathan Bailey House4.6 miles1977
National Bank of Whittier Building5.0 miles1982

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 74000520 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.