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Henry A. Rengstorff House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. 22 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.
From the record
“The Rengstorff House was one of the first houses to be built in Mountain View, California. It was built c. 1867 by Henry Rengstorff, a prominent local businessman who operated a ferry between San Francisco and Mountain View.”
Wikipedia article Rengstorff House, 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.78000778- 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
1897 to 1997
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
100 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
18971997
Fires near this property
135 since 1993
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 135 fires within 5 miles of Henry A. Rengstorff House
between 1993 and 2020, burning about 112 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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
78
Equipment and vehicle use
15
Smoking
13
Debris and open burning
9
Power generation/transmission/distribution
7
Misuse of fire by a minor
7
Arson/incendiarism
5
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
8 September 2010
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
5 September 2011
Arson/incendiarism
under an acre
Santa Clara Unit
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
27 September 2010
Smoking
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
not named
19 September 2007
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
8 workings within 5 miles of Henry A. Rengstorff House: 4 producers, 2 unknowns, 1 past producer, 1 occurrence.
4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Gold, Silver, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Copper, Tin, Palladium. 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
Mountain View, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 3 flood, 2 hail, 1 funnel cloud.
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.
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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