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Crossroads of the World
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. 19 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1894.
From the record
“Crossroads of the World is an open-air mall on Sunset Boulevard and Las Palmas in Los Angeles. The mall features a central building designed to resemble an ocean liner surrounded by a small village of cottage-style bungalows.”
Wikipedia article Crossroads of the World, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 616 National Register listings published here for Los Angeles County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.
Architectural style. Moderne architecture, modern architecture
Architect. Robert Vincent Derrah
National Register reference number.80000805- 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
1894 to 1979
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.
18941979
Fires near this property
94 since 1995
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Crossroads of the World
between 1995 and 2020, burning about 1,050 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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
57
Smoking
13
Arson/incendiarism
8
Misuse of fire by a minor
6
Equipment and vehicle use
5
Power generation/transmission/distribution
3
Debris and open burning
2
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
30 September 2007
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
29 September 2017
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area
EAST FIRE
24 September 2019
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1.0 acres
Los Angeles County Fire Department
not named
21 September 2018
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
18 September 1995
Arson/incendiarism
5.0 acres
Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area
FRANKLIN
10 September 2017
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
7 August 2008
Equipment and vehicle use
1.0 acres
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
30 August 2017
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1.0 acres
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
9 workings within 5 miles of Crossroads of the World: 3 prospects, 3 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gold, Clay, Calcium. 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
Hollywood, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 2002 and 2026: 5 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 high wind, 1 debris flow.
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.
Strong thunderstorms produced heavy rain and flash flooding in the city of Los Angeles. At the intersection of Highway 101 and Campo de Cahuenga, significant road flooding was reported.
Heavy rain produced flash flooding in the North Hollywood area. California Highway Patrol reported the car pool lane of SR-170 was closed at Riverside Drive due to flooding.
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.
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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