Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. 17 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.
From the record
“The Yorba-Slaughter Adobe is a historic adobe house located at 17127 Pomona Rincon Road near Chino, California. Built in the early 1850s, the adobe is typical of the building style prevalent during and around California's period of Mexican governance.”
Wikipedia article Yorba-Slaughter Adobe, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 98 National Register listings published here for San Bernardino County · listed in 1975 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.75000460- 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
1901 to 1983
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19011983
Fires near this property
295 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 295 fires within 5 miles of Yorba-Slaughter Adobe
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 21,448 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 14 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
146
Equipment and vehicle use
94
Smoking
15
Arson/incendiarism
14
Misuse of fire by a minor
10
Debris and open burning
6
Power generation/transmission/distribution
3
Railroad operations and maintenance
3
Recreation and ceremony
3
Natural
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
3 workings within 5 miles of Yorba-Slaughter Adobe: 3 past producers.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Chino, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 5 flood, 5 flash flood, 4 wildfire, 2 heavy rain.
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.
Very heavy rainfall occurred across the Inland Empire from the evening on March 14 through the morning on March 15. Rainfall of 2.00-3.50 fell, with local amounts up to 4 inches closer to the San Bernardino County Mountains. Flash flooding was reported early on the morning of March 15; firefighters responded to a vehicle in swift moving water, and the rescue was successful. Also, Grove Ave between Merrill Ave, Chino and Riverside Ave in Ontario saw 2 to 4 inches of running water covering the entire roadway. Kimball Ave in Chino between Quality Way and Euclid Ave were flooded with 2 to 4 inches of standing water.
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.
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.
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.
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