Photograph of Stagecoach Inn — Photograph by Los Angeles, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Grand Union Hotel

Built in 1876. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.

From the record

“The Stagecoach Inn Museum in Newbury Park, California, originally known as the Grand Union Hotel, was used as a resting area for people who traveled from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara. Besides a hotel and stagecoach stop, it has also been used as a post office, church, restaurant and military school.”
Wikipedia article Stagecoach Inn (California), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 39 National Register listings published here for Ventura County · listed in 1975 · category: Building · built in 1876.

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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 51 Ventu Park Rd., Newbury Park, 91320
When was it listed? December 1975
Category. building
Census division. Thousand Oaks
When was it built? 1876
National Register reference number. 75000495 - 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

1900 to 1979

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Grand Union Hotel, surveyed 1979

Topographic sheet covering Grand Union Hotel, surveyed 1900

Fires near this property

94 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Grand Union Hotel between 1992 and 2020, burning about 67,473 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 5 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	46
Equipment and vehicle use	20
Arson/incendiarism	5
Fireworks	5
Debris and open burning	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Natural	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Smoking	3
Other causes	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 2009	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area	KIMBER
5 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ventura County Fire Department	not named
5 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ventura County Fire Department	BRUSH
5 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area	SMALLFIRE
30 September 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Ventura County Fire Department	not named
27 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	42 acres	Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area	HAMPSHIRE
27 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area	YERBA
2 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area	YERBABUENA

Every fire recorded in Ventura County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Grand Union Hotel: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Mary Smith Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
	Quality Rock Company Sand and Gravl	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Ventura County

Storms near this property

5 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Newbury Park, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2001 and 2024: 3 flash flood, 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 death. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
January 2010	Flash Flood	Newbury Park	1 killed	A Ventura county man drowned in the Wildwood Park area of Thousand Oaks. The individual was hiking in the park to observe the local creeks that were flooded due to the heavy rainfall. The individual fell into one of the creeks and drowned.
February 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Newbury Park	-	An automated sensor at Sandstone Peak reported thunderstorm wind gusts of 82 MPH.
August 2023	Flash Flood	Newbury Park	-	Heavy rain generated flash flooding near the community of Newbury Park. Significant flooding was reported on Highway 101 near Ventu Park Road.
February 2017	Flash Flood	Newbury Park	-	Heavy rain generated flash flooding in Ventura county near the community of Thousand Oak. In Wildwood Creek, there men were rescued from the water when the creek flooded.
November 2001	Flood	Newbury Park	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ventura County

Maps showing this location

12 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.

1900 USGS Triunfo Pass quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1903 USGS Camulos quadrangle1:125000 - 5 printings
1921 USGS Triunfo Pass quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1943 USGS Triunfo Pass quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1950 USGS Newbury Park quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
1951 USGS Newbury Park quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1955 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1966 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1979 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:100000

Listed places nearby

3 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
Case Study House No. 28	1.8 miles	2013
Joel McCrea Ranch	5.5 miles	1997
Camarillo Ranch House	6.6 miles	2003

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 75000495 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ventura County	All 39 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.
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.