Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. 20 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1896.
From the record
“Howe-Waffle House and Medical Museum is an 1889 Queen Anne style home in Santa Ana, California. Willella Howe-Waffle, one of the first female physicians in Orange County, California, until her death in 1924.”
Wikipedia article Howe-Waffle House and Carriage House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 136 National Register listings published here for Orange County · listed in 1977 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.77000320- 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
1896 to 1983
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
18961983
Fires near this property
292 since 1998
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 292 fires within 5 miles of Howe-Waffle House and Carriage House
between 1998 and 2020, burning about 6,236 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 37 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
175
Arson/incendiarism
37
Equipment and vehicle use
25
Smoking
19
Misuse of fire by a minor
19
Debris and open burning
11
Natural
4
Railroad operations and maintenance
1
Power generation/transmission/distribution
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
6 September 2019
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Orange County Fire Authority
not named
6 September 2009
Debris and open burning
1.0 acres
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
30 September 2019
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Orange County Fire Authority
not named
30 September 2006
Debris and open burning
1.0 acres
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
28 September 2005
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
28 September 2005
Misuse of fire by a minor
1.0 acres
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
27 September 2005
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1.0 acres
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
26 September 2010
Misuse of fire by a minor
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
15 workings within 5 miles of Howe-Waffle House and Carriage House: 13 past producers, 2 producers.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Mercury, 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Santa Ana, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 3 flood, 3 flash flood, 1 heavy rain, 1 funnel cloud.
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.
Heavy rain led to flooding early in the morning on February 25 across inland Orange County, centered around the community of Costa Mesa. The Department of Highways reported flooding at the Bristol Street on-ramp on I-405 with vehicles stuck in the floodwaters; street flooding leading to road closures and stranded vehicles; and SR-173 and Campus Drive had 1-2 feet of water in two lanes.
Very heavy rainfall occurred across inland Orange County from the evening on March 14 through the morning on March 15. Rainfall of 1.50-2.50 fell. An MPing report of street and road flooding resulting in road closures and stranded vehicles was reported near Santa Ana early in the morning on March 15.
Swiftwater rescue in the Santa Ana River at Garden Grove Blvd. The area received 0.5 to 1 inch of rain at the time of rescue. An adult male was successfully rescued but taken to the hospital. The main IVT frontal band moved through Southern California 7-10 AM.
A male and a female were in a flood control channel and had to be rescued by the Orange County Fire Department when they were caught off guard by the quickly rising 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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