Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1917.
From the record
“Villa Mira Monte is a historic villa in Morgan Hill, California, United States, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was built for Hiram Morgan Hill, founder of Morgan Hill, and his wife Diana Helen Murphy Hill, a Californio heiress.”
Wikipedia article Villa Mira Monte, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 117 National Register listings published here for Santa Clara County · listed in 1978 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.78000777- 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
1917 to 1978
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
61 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19171978
Fires near this property
670 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 670 fires within 5 miles of Villa Mira Monte
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 11,846 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 41 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
328
Equipment and vehicle use
201
Arson/incendiarism
41
Misuse of fire by a minor
32
Smoking
24
Debris and open burning
17
Recreation and ceremony
9
Power generation/transmission/distribution
9
Natural
5
Fireworks
1
Firearms and explosives use
1
Other causes
1
Railroad operations and maintenance
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
29 workings within 5 miles of Villa Mira Monte: 10 past producers, 8 occurrences, 6 prospects, 3 unknowns.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gemstone. 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
Morgan Hill, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2018: 5 flood, 1 heavy rain, 1 flash flood, 1 hail.
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.
Eight families were evacuated from the Bisceglia Avenue apartment complex in Morgan Hill due to flooding. More than a foot of standing water was in the recently renovated four ground floor apartments. The three foot high wall, built to stave off flood water, was unsuccessful.
Monterey Road between Third and Fourth Streets was submerged due to flooding. Flood waters entered a restaurant on Fourth Street causing damage. Streets were flooded throughout Morgan Hill with water as high as two feet is some locations. The city actually ran out of moveable flooded signs and barriers, unable to mark all flooded locations. Here are some of the locations experiencing flooding: south end of town near the Morgan Hill Post Office on Monterey Road; Fountain Avenue; Llagas Creek Road, Monterey Road north of Morgan Hill, near Cochrane Road; Old Monterey Road from Monterey to Llagas Roads; Butterfield Boulevard at several locations, including at San Pedro and Diana Avenues; Watsonville Road at Monterey Road; Monterey Road at Burnett Avenue; Tennant Avenue; and Wright Avenue from Del Monte to Hale Avenues. Also, a sewage pipe connecting Morgan Hill to the Gilroy sewage treatment plant backed up causing 40,000 gallons of raw sewage to spill into the Ludewig Ranch causing the cancellation of the Harvest Festival in San Martin, an event to raise funds and food for the homeless.
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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