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Photograph of Woodhills
Photograph by David Sawyer from Rancho Murieta, California, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Woodhills

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. 21 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.

From the record

“Fremont Older Open Space Preserve is a 739-acre (299 ha) regional park located in Santa Clara County, California and operated by the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District. The preserve contains 14.7 miles (23.7 km) of hiking trails, nearly all open to equestrians and bicycles.”

Wikipedia article Fremont Older Open Space Preserve, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 117 National Register listings published here for Santa Clara County · listed in 1978 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. S of Cupertino on Prospect Rd., Cupertino, 95070
  • When was it listed? December 1978
  • Category. building
  • Census division. San Jose
  • Architectural style. modern architecture
  • Architect. Charles William McCall, Frank Delos Wolfe
  • National Register reference number. 78000773 - 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

185 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 185 fires within 5 miles of Woodhills between 1992 and 2020, burning about 207 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 23 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/undetermined78
Equipment and vehicle use35
Arson/incendiarism23
Power generation/transmission/distribution17
Smoking11
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Debris and open burning6
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
4 September 2018Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
3 September 2016Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
29 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSanta Clara Unitnot named
28 September 2007Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSanta Clara UnitSANBORN
27 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
25 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSanta Clara Unitnot named
23 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named

Every fire recorded in Santa Clara County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Woodhills: 8 producers, 6 past producers, 3 unknowns, 2 occurrences. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Calcium, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Neary Rock QuarryStoneProducer
Permanente QuarryCalcium, Clay, Limestone, GeneralProducer
Stevens Creek QuarryStone, DimensionUnknown
Permanente Cement Co.Calcium, ClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Permanente Cement PlantLimestone, General, ClayProducer
Unnamed Limestone DepositLimestone, GeneralOccurrence
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Permanente Cement PlantCalciumProducer
Stevens Creek QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Santa Clara County

Storms near this property

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cupertino, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2015 and 2019: 2 flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2015FloodCupertino-Multiple offramps from Interstate 280 reported flooded. Including Bird, Saratoga, 11th ave, and Northbound Highway 87.
February 2019FloodCupertino-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Santa Clara County

Maps showing this location

21 surveys

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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Miller-Melone Ranch1.5 miles1993
Picchetti Brothers Winery1.8 miles1979
Paul Masson Mountain Winery1.8 miles1983
Le Petit Trianon2.4 miles1972
Hakone Historic District2.5 miles2013
Saratoga Foothill Club2.5 miles2005

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 78000773 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Santa Clara CountyAll 117 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.