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Granger Hall
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.
From the record
“Granger Hall, a historic building currently located at 1700 E. 4th St. in National City, California, was built in 1898 as an "acoustically perfect" music auditorium addition to a smaller music room in the Paradise Valley estate of Ralph Granger. Granger made a fortune in the "Last Chance" silver mine in Colorado during the 1890s.”
Wikipedia article Granger Hall (National City, California), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 148 National Register listings published here for San Diego County · listed in 1975 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.75000465- 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 1996
The 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.
19041996
Fires near this property
532 since 1994
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 532 fires within 5 miles of Granger Hall
between 1994 and 2020, burning about 281 acres in total. None started naturally. 113 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
302
Arson/incendiarism
113
Debris and open burning
47
Smoking
32
Misuse of fire by a minor
23
Equipment and vehicle use
11
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
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
8 workings within 5 miles of Granger Hall: 6 past producers, 2 producers.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Salt, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
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.
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.
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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