Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.
From the record
“The Montalvo Arts Center is a non-profit center for the arts in Saratoga, California, United States. Open to the public, Montalvo comprises a cultural and arts center, a park, hiking trails and the historic Villa Montalvo, an Italian Mediterranean Revival mansion nestled in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains.”
Wikipedia article Montalvo Arts Center, 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.78000784- 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
243 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 243 fires within 5 miles of Villa Montalvo
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 623 acres in total. None started naturally. 33 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
119
Equipment and vehicle use
41
Arson/incendiarism
33
Smoking
15
Power generation/transmission/distribution
13
Misuse of fire by a minor
9
Debris and open burning
8
Recreation and ceremony
4
Other causes
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 2019
Power generation/transmission/distribution
under an acre
Santa Clara Unit
not named
9 September 2014
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1.0 acres
San Mateo-Santa Cruz Unit
LOST
6 September 1996
Equipment and vehicle use
under an acre
San Mateo-Santa Cruz Unit
PG&E #22
29 September 2019
Equipment and vehicle use
under an acre
Santa Clara Unit
not named
28 September 2017
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
28 September 2007
Power generation/transmission/distribution
under an acre
Santa Clara Unit
SANBORN
25 September 2019
Equipment and vehicle use
under an acre
Santa Clara Unit
not named
25 September 2018
Equipment and vehicle use
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
21 workings within 5 miles of Villa Montalvo: 10 past producers, 6 producers, 3 prospects, 1 occurrence.
6 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Calcium, Stone. 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
Saratoga, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2002 and 2019: 4 debris flow, 2 heavy rain, 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.
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.
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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