Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. 22 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.
From the record
“The Willard Griffin House and Carriage House is a historic mansion and carriage house located in Los Altos, California. The estate, constructed in 1901, features a three-story main house designed in the American Craftsman style.”
Wikipedia article Willard Griffin House and Carriage House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 117 National Register listings published here for Santa Clara County · listed in 1977 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.77000342- 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.
Fires near this property
167 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 167 fires within 5 miles of Willard Griffin House and Carriage House
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 275 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 12 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
80
Equipment and vehicle use
30
Smoking
16
Arson/incendiarism
12
Power generation/transmission/distribution
11
Misuse of fire by a minor
10
Debris and open burning
6
Railroad operations and maintenance
1
Natural
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
Arson/incendiarism
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
4 September 2018
Misuse of fire by a minor
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
30 September 2017
Equipment and vehicle use
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
30 September 2010
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
28 September 2009
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
27 September 2017
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
26 September 2011
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1.0 acres
Santa Clara Unit
not named
26 September 2008
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
29 workings within 5 miles of Willard Griffin House and Carriage House: 15 producers, 7 past producers, 5 unknowns, 2 prospects.
15 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Calcium, 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
Los Altos, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 5 flood, 1 tornado.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
A tornado briefly touched down in Los Altos CA on Alicia Way and continued to the Los Altos High School.A woman Tennis Coach at the high school was picked up and hurled around 20 feet and sustained injuries.
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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