McNally's Windemere Ranch Headquarters

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. 20 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1896.

From the record

One of 616 National Register listings published here for Los Angeles County · listed in 1978 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Address. San Esteban and San Cristobal Dr., La Mirada, 90638
When was it listed? July 1978
Category. building
Census division. Whittier
National Register reference number. 78000684 - 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 1901

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 5 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering McNally's Windemere Ranch Headquarters, surveyed 1901

Topographic sheet covering McNally's Windemere Ranch Headquarters, surveyed 1896

Fires near this property

349 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 349 fires within 5 miles of McNally's Windemere Ranch Headquarters between 2005 and 2020, burning about 139 acres in total. None started naturally. 50 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	211
Arson/incendiarism	50
Smoking	34
Equipment and vehicle use	23
Misuse of fire by a minor	21
Debris and open burning	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2

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
5 September 2018	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
5 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
5 September 2005	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
30 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
3 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
3 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
25 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
25 September 2007	Smoking	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named

Every fire recorded in Los Angeles County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of McNally's Windemere Ranch Headquarters: 5 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
J. A. Houlihan Property	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Prospect
Murphy Ranch	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Murphy Ranch	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Atlas Sewer Pipe Co	Clay	Prospect	Sedimentary
Atlas Sewer Pipe Co. Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Pacific Clay Products Co	Clay	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Pacific Clay Products Co. East Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Santa Fe Springs Plant	Clay	Producer

Every working recorded in Los Angeles County

Storms near this property

2 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names La Mirada, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 debris flow. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
February 2024	Debris Flow	La Mirada	-	UP to 2 feet of water was reported on Rosecrans Boulevard between Beach Road and La Mirada Street.
April 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	La Mirada	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Los Angeles County

Maps showing this location

20 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.

1896 USGS Downey quadrangle1:62500
1899 USGS Downey quadrangle1:62500
1901 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
1902 USGS Downey quadrangle1:62500 - 9 printings
1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1923 USGS Artesia quadrangle1:24000
1925 USGS Artesia quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1942 USGS Downey quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Downey quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1943 USGS San Pedro quadrangle1:125000
1945 USGS Artesia quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS Long Beach quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1949 USGS Whittier quadrangle1:24000
1951 USGS Whittier quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Long Beach quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1958 USGS Long Beach quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Long Beach quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1965 USGS Whittier quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
1974 USGS Whittier quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Long Beach 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
Darius David Johnston House	2.4 miles	1978
Paddison Ranch Buildings	3.3 miles	1978
Hawkins-Nimocks Estate-Patricio Ontiveros Adobe	4.1 miles	1987
Orin Jordan House	4.4 miles	1980
Clarke Estate	4.5 miles	1990
Southern Pacific Railroad Depot, Whittier	5.3 miles	2005

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78000684 in Record Group 79.
Los Angeles County	All 616 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.