Moyse Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. 18 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.

From the record

“The Moyse Building, also known as the Gray Building, is a historic building located at 13150 7th Street in Chino, California. Built in 1887, it is the oldest surviving building in the city.”
Wikipedia article Moyse Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 98 National Register listings published here for San Bernardino 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. 13150 7th St., Chino, 91710
When was it listed? February 1979
Category. building
Census division. Ontario
National Register reference number. 79000522 - 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 1982

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Moyse Building, surveyed 1982

Topographic sheet covering Moyse Building, surveyed 1897

Fires near this property

334 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 334 fires within 5 miles of Moyse Building between 1992 and 2020, burning about 662 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 40 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	194
Arson/incendiarism	40
Equipment and vehicle use	37
Smoking	25
Misuse of fire by a minor	25
Debris and open burning	9
Natural	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	San Bernardino Unit	not named
9 September 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
9 September 2005	Smoking	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
7 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
6 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
5 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
5 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
4 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named

Every fire recorded in San Bernardino County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Moyse Building: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Gold. 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
	Chino Plant	Clay	Producer
	Elmira	Gold	Past Producer

Every working recorded in San Bernardino County

Storms near this property

16 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chino, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 5 flood, 5 flash flood, 4 wildfire, 2 heavy rain. 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
February 2005	Heavy Rain	Chino	$40,000,000	no account filed
December 2002	Flood	Chino	$500,000	no account filed
November 2003	Flash Flood	Chino	$100,000	no account filed
November 2001	Flood	Chino	$70,000	no account filed
November 2003	Flash Flood	Chino	$40,000	no account filed
April 2003	Heavy Rain	Chino	$40,000	no account filed
October 2004	Flash Flood	Chino	$5,000	A 50-year-old man had to be rescued from his truck near El Prado Golf Course when it was submerged up to its hood in flood waters.
March 2023	Flash Flood	Chino	-	Very heavy rainfall occurred across the Inland Empire from the evening on March 14 through the morning on March 15. Rainfall of 2.00-3.50 fell, with local amounts up to 4 inches closer to the San Bernardino County Mountains. Flash flooding was reported early on the morning of March 15; firefighters responded to a vehicle in swift moving water, and the rescue was successful. Also, Grove Ave between Merrill Ave, Chino and Riverside Ave in Ontario saw 2 to 4 inches of running water covering the entire roadway. Kimball Ave in Chino between Quality Way and Euclid Ave were flooded with 2 to 4 inches of standing water.
May 2019	Flash Flood	Chino	-	CalTrans reported numerous areas of highway 60 near Chino flooded out due to heavy rain.
August 2003	Wildfire	Chino	-	no account filed
July 2002	Wildfire	Chino	-	no account filed
July 2001	Wildfire	Chino	-	no account filed
August 2000	Wildfire	Chino	-	no account filed
January 1998	Flood	Chino	-	no account filed
February 1998	Flood	Chino	-	no account filed
February 1998	Flood	Chino	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in San Bernardino County

Maps showing this location

18 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.

1897 USGS Cucamonga quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Cucamonga quadrangle1:62500
1901 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
1903 USGS Cucamonga quadrangle1:62500 - 11 printings
1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1933 USGS Ontario quadrangle1:31680
1942 USGS Ontario and Vicinity quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1944 USGS Cucamonga quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1954 USGS Ontario quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1954 USGS Ontario quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1956 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Ontario quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1982 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:100000

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Euclid Avenue	2.6 miles	2005
Dr. Orville S. Ensign House	3.9 miles	2012
Ontario State Bank Block	3.9 miles	1982
Frankish Building	4.0 miles	1980
Yorba-Slaughter Adobe	5.3 miles	1975
Ontario Baseball Park	5.6 miles	2021

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79000522 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
San Bernardino County	All 98 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.