Berylwood

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

“Bard, who was influential in the formation of Ventura County as a landowner, entrepreneur, and politician. Located in Port Hueneme, California within Naval Base Ventura County, the estate was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.”
Wikipedia article Berylwood, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 39 National Register listings published here for Ventura County · listed in 1977 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Ventura Rd., Port Hueneme, 93041
When was it listed? September 1977
Category. district
Census division. Oxnard
Architect. Myron Hunt
National Register reference number. 77000360 - 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

64 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Berylwood between 2009 and 2020, burning about 48 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Misuse of fire by a minor	10
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Debris and open burning	2
Smoking	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
9 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
5 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ventura County Fire Department	not named
26 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
22 September 2019	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Ventura County Fire Department	not named
21 September 2020	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Ventura County Fire Department	not named
20 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ventura County Fire Department	not named
2 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.6 acres	Ventura County Fire Department	not named
17 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Ventura County Fire Department	not named

Every fire recorded in Ventura County

Maps showing this location

11 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.

1904 USGS Hueneme quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1942 USGS Hueneme quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Hueneme quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1949 USGS Oxnard quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1951 USGS Oxnard quadrangle1:24000
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
1982 USGS Santa Barbara quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings

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
Women's Improvement Club of Hueneme	0.6 miles	1989
Oxnard Public Library	2.9 miles	1971
Henry T. Oxnard Historic District	3.0 miles	1999
Gottfried Maulhardt Farm	4.3 miles	2023
Scarlett Ranch	5.1 miles	2024
Olivas Adobe	6.5 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 77000360 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.