BlockFrom the record
One of 64 National Register listings published here for Monterey County · listed in 1979 · category: Site.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Los Coches Rancho
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1915.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 1 mi, (1.6 km) S of Soledad on U.S. 101, Soledad, 93960
- When was it listed? January 1979
- Category. site
- Census division. Soledad
- National Register reference number. 79000502 - 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
1915 to 1948The ground this property stands on, surveyed 33 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Fires near this property
223 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 223 fires within 5 miles of Los Coches Rancho between 1993 and 2020, burning about 13,341 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 16 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 | 132 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 32 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 17 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 16 |
| Debris and open burning | 15 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 8 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | San Benito-Monterey Unit | METZ RD SOLEDAD_CITY |
| 9 September 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.1 acres | San Benito-Monterey Unit | ELAM |
| 8 September 2012 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | San Benito-Monterey Unit | ENCINAL |
| 6 September 2020 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.0 acres | San Benito-Monterey Unit | SOLEDAD HIGH SCHOOL SOLED |
| 5 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | San Benito-Monterey Unit | MISSION WY SOLEDAD_CITY |
| 5 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | San Benito-Monterey Unit | ARROYO |
| 4 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | San Benito-Monterey Unit | GOMEZ PL / SERRANO PL |
| 30 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | San Benito-Monterey Unit | METZ RD SOLEDAD |
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Los Coches Rancho: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stonewall Canyon Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Stonewall Canyon Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this property
2 since 2021Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Soledad, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 2021: 1 hail, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2021 | Hail | Soledad | - | Small hail reported in Soledad via social media. |
| January 2021 | Flood | Soledad | - | US-101 N closed from Front St to Front St SB off ramp due to flooding. |
Maps showing this location
10 surveysUnited 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.
- 1915 USGS Soledad quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
- 1940 USGS Soledad quadrangle1:62500
- 1948 USGS Santa Cruz quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Santa Cruz quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Soledad quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Santa Cruz quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Santa Cruz quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Santa Cruz quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Monterey quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Point Sur quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings
Listed places nearby
1 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mission Nuestra Senora de la Soledad Historic District | 2.1 miles | 2014 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 79000502 in Record Group 79. |
| Monterey County | All 64 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.