Minnie Hill Palmer House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. 17 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“The Minnie Hill Palmer House, also known as The Homestead Acre, is the only remaining homestead cottage in the San Fernando Valley. The cottage is a redwood Stick-Eastlake style American Craftsman-Bungalow located on a 1.3-acre (0.53 ha) site in Chatsworth Park South in the Chatsworth section of Los Angeles, California.”
Wikipedia article Minnie Hill Palmer House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 616 National Register listings published here for Los Angeles County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Palmer, Minnie Hill, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Chatsworth Park South, Chatsworth, 91311
When was it listed? September 1979
Category. building
Census division. San Fernando Valley
Architectural style. Stick style
National Register reference number. 79000480 - 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

1903 to 1979

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 76 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Minnie Hill Palmer House, surveyed 1979

Topographic sheet covering Minnie Hill Palmer House, surveyed 1903

Fires near this property

61 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Minnie Hill Palmer House between 2005 and 2020, burning about 39,980 acres in total. None 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	34
Smoking	5
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Debris and open burning	5
Arson/incendiarism	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Fireworks	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
28 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	24,970 acres	Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area	TOPANGA
28 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	120 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
26 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
23 September 2007	Smoking	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
18 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	61 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
13 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
1 September 2020	Fireworks	under an acre	Ventura County Fire Department	CROWN
26 August 2006	Smoking	1.0 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named

Every fire recorded in Los Angeles County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Minnie Hill Palmer House: 6 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Flagstone, Stone. 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
Unnamed Location	Stone	Producer
Charlton Quarry	Flagstone	Past Producer
Chatsworth Park Quarry	Stone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Santa Susana Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Southern Pacific Quarry	Flagstone	Past Producer
Clement Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Past Producer
Gilbert	Stone, Dimension	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Los Angeles County

Storms near this property

1 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chatsworth, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1999: 1 tornado. 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
April 1999	Tornado (F0)	Chatsworth	-	A small tornado touched down in the community of Chatsworth. Two mobile homes were damaged.

Every storm recorded in Los Angeles County

Maps showing this location

17 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.

1903 USGS Camulos quadrangle1:125000 - 5 printings
1903 USGS Santa Susana quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1925 USGS Chatsworth quadrangle1:24000
1927 USGS Chatsworth quadrangle1:24000
1929 USGS Chatsworth quadrangle1:24000
1933 USGS Chatsworth quadrangle1:24000
1940 USGS Chatsworth quadrangle1:24000
1941 USGS Santa Susana quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1943 USGS Santa Susana quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1952 USGS Oat Mountain quadrangle1:24000 - 8 printings
1955 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1966 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1976 USGS Oat Mountain quadrangle1:24000
1979 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:100000

Listed places nearby

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Leonis Adobe	7.3 miles	1975
	Well No. 4, Pico Canyon Oil Field	7.5 miles	1966

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79000480 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.