Berwick Manor and Orchard

Built in 1869. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1913.

From the record

“Berwick Manor and Orchard, is located on Boronda Road off Carmel Valley Road in Carmel Valley, California. The farmstead was acquired in 1869 by Edward Berwick, a prolific writer and educator as well as a scientific farmer.”
Wikipedia article Berwick Manor and Orchard, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 64 National Register listings published here for Monterey County · listed in 1977 · category: Site · built in 1869.

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

The listing

Address. NW of Carmel Valley, Carmel Valley, 93923
When was it listed? November 1977
Category. site
Census division. Carmel-by-the-Sea
When was it built? 1869
National Register reference number. 77000309 - 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

1913 to 1983

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 70 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Berwick Manor and Orchard, surveyed 1983

Topographic sheet covering Berwick Manor and Orchard, surveyed 1913

Fires near this property

189 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 189 fires within 5 miles of Berwick Manor and Orchard between 1992 and 2020, burning about 500 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 9 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	73
Equipment and vehicle use	67
Debris and open burning	9
Arson/incendiarism	9
Smoking	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Recreation and ceremony	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Natural	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
7 September 1994	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	San Benito-Monterey Unit	SAN CARLOS
6 September 2012	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	San Benito-Monterey Unit	MEADOWS
6 September 2002	Smoking	1.0 acres	San Benito-Monterey Unit	PANETTA
6 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	San Benito-Monterey Unit	CARPENTER
6 September 1992	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	San Benito-Monterey Unit	RANCHO SAN CARLOS
5 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Central California District	CABEU 003602
4 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	San Benito-Monterey Unit	HIGHWAY 68
30 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	San Benito-Monterey Unit	MATHESON

Every fire recorded in Monterey County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 35 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 35 workings within 5 miles of Berwick Manor and Orchard: 17 past producers, 12 producers, 5 prospects, 1 occurrence. 12 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Dimension. 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
Carmel Valley Area	Phosphorus-Phosphates	Occurrence
Meadows	Slate, Dimension	Past Producer
Monterey Mission Tile	Clay	Prospect	Sedimentary
Monterey Mission Tile	Clay	Past Producer
Santa Lucia Quarries, Ltd.	Flagstone	Past Producer
Sierra	Flagstone	Past Producer
Stewart Quarry	Slate, Dimension	Past Producer
Work Ranch Deposit	Diatomite	Producer	Sedimentary
Work Ranch Deposit	Diatomite	Past Producer
Carmel Stone Quarry-Anthony	Stone, Dimension	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Monterey County

Maps showing this location

13 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1913 USGS Monterey quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1941 USGS Monterey quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Monterey quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1947 USGS Seaside quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
1948 USGS Santa Cruz quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Seaside quadrangle1:24000
1955 USGS Santa Cruz quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Santa Cruz quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Santa Cruz quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1965 USGS Santa Cruz quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Monterey quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Monterey quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1983 USGS Seaside quadrangle1:24000

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
Carmel Valley Road-Boronda Road Eucalyptus Tree Row	4.1 miles	2008
St. John's Chapel, Del Monte	5.9 miles	2020
Outlands in the Eighty Acres	6.0 miles	1989
Carmel Mission	6.1 miles	1966
Sunset Center	6.3 miles	1998
Marsh, G.T., and Sons	6.6 miles	2007

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 77000309 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Monterey County	All 64 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.