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Pacific Electric Railway Company Depot

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. 19 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1896.

From the record

“The Yorba Linda Depot is a former railway station of the Pacific Electric Railway, located in Yorba Linda, California. The station was in service for the La Habra-Fullerton-Yorba Linda Line, with rail service beginning in 1910 when tracks were extended through the town as far southeast as Stern.”

Wikipedia article Yorba Linda station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 136 National Register listings published here for Orange 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.
  • Address. 18132 Imperial Hwy., Yorba Linda, 92886
  • When was it listed? October 1979
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Anaheim-Santa Ana-Garden Grove
  • National Register reference number. 79000517 - 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

1896 to 1983

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Pacific Electric Railway Company Depot, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet covering Pacific Electric Railway Company Depot, surveyed 1896

Fires near this property

104 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 104 fires within 5 miles of Pacific Electric Railway Company Depot between 1992 and 2020, burning about 31,984 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 24 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/undetermined45
Arson/incendiarism24
Equipment and vehicle use18
Smoking7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1
Debris and open burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
4 September 2010Arson/incendiarism10 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
27 September 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
25 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresOrange County Fire AuthorityCARBON FIRE
1 September 2005Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
30 August 2018Misuse of fire by a minor1.5 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
30 August 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOrange County Fire Authoritynot named
27 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
25 August 2005Equipment and vehicle use3.1 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Pacific Electric Railway Company Depot: 7 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Garber Brickk & Tile Co.ClayPast Producer
Bixby PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Orange QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Consolidated Rock Products Co.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Irvine Lake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Orange PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Owl PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
R. J. Noble Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sparks & Mcclelland PlantsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sully-Miller Contracting Co.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Orange County

Storms near this property

13 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yorba Linda, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 2001 and 2023: 4 flash flood, 2 wildfire, 2 flood, 2 hail. The reports record 2 injuries. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
November 2002WildfireYorba Linda2 hurtno account filed
January 2005Flash FloodYorba Linda$300,000no account filed
November 2003Flash FloodYorba Linda$35,000no account filed
February 2005Flash FloodYorba Linda$30,000no account filed
April 2012Thunderstorm WindYorba Linda$4,000A spotter 4 miles ESE of Yorba Linda reported trees down, bark peeled off trees and post office drop boxed flipped near Weir Canyon and the 91 freeway.||High winds were reported at the Fremont Canyon RAWS between 1251 and 1351 PST on the 13th with a peak gust of 63 mph.||The area was surveyed for possible tornado damage but only evidence of straight line wind was observed.
March 2019HailYorba Linda$500Spotter reported dime-sized hail in Yorba Linda around 1500 PST on March 20th.
January 2023FloodYorba Linda-The Department of Highways reported flooding in 4 out of 5 lanes.
October 2005HailYorba Linda-A high precipitation supercell moving at approximately 45 mph through northern Orange County dropped 3/4 inch hail in Yorba Linda. The storm left the San Diego CWA and later dropped even larger hail near Pasadena.
January 2005Flash FloodYorba Linda-no account filed
November 2002Heavy RainYorba Linda-no account filed
March 2002FloodYorba Linda-no account filed
April 2002WildfireYorba Linda-no account filed
March 2001Funnel CloudYorba Linda-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Orange County

Maps showing this location

19 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.

Listed places nearby

6 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Richard Nixon Birthplace0.1 miles1971
A. S. Bradford House2.7 miles1978
Attlio and Jane Pierotti House2.9 miles1993
George Key Ranch3.0 miles1975
Dr. George C. Clark House3.9 miles1976
Olive Civic Center3.9 miles1993

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 79000517 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Orange CountyAll 136 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.