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One of 32 National Register listings published here for San Luis Obispo County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Guthrie House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1919.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Burton and Center Sts., Cambria, 93428
- When was it listed? January 1980
- Category. building
- Census division. North Coast
- National Register reference number. 80000853 - 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.
Fires near this property
108 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Guthrie House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 339 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 1 was 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 | 46 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 32 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 6 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | San Luis Obispo Unit | BURTON DR CAMBRIA 71 |
| 9 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Central California District | UNNAMED FIRE 1901 |
| 3 September 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | San Luis Obispo Unit | MOONSTONE |
| 28 September 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | San Luis Obispo Unit | NOEL WY SLO_CO |
| 26 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | San Luis Obispo Unit | CREEK |
| 25 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | San Luis Obispo Unit | VILLAGE |
| 23 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | San Luis Obispo Unit | TRENTON ST CMB |
| 23 September 1999 | Natural | under an acre | San Luis Obispo Unit | SMOKE CHECK |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 24 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Guthrie House: 16 past producers, 3 producers, 3 occurrences, 2 prospects. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Mercury, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Chromium. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phelan Prospect | Manganese | Occurrence | 1918 | |
| Rogers Ranch Occurrence | Chromium | Occurrence | Chromite | |
| San Simeon Creek Deposit | Antimony | Past Producer | ||
| San Simeon Creek Shell Deposits | Calcium | Occurrence | ||
| Bianchi Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Cambria Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Rancho San Simeon Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Cambria | Mercury | Past Producer | 1903 | |
| Cambria Mine | Mercury | Past Producer | ||
| Oceanic Mine | Mercury | Past Producer | 1865, 1875 |
Storms near this property
3 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cambria, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cambria | $1,000 | Strong thunderstorms generated gusty winds. A large tree was knocked down across Santa Rosa Creek Road. |
| September 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cambria | $1,000 | Strong thunderstorms generated gusty winds in the community of Cambria. Law enforcement reported a tree was knocked down. |
| January 2008 | Flash Flood | Cambria | - | California Highway Patrol reported flash flooding along San Simeon Creek Road. |
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.
- 1919 USGS San Simeon quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
- 1937 USGS San Simeon quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS San Luis Obispo quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS San Luis Obispo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS San Luis Obispo quadrangle1:250000 - 5 printings
- 1957 USGS San Luis Obispo quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS San Luis Obispo quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Cambria quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
- 1959 USGS San Simeon quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Cambria quadrangle1:100000 - 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Old Santa Rosa Catholic Church and Cemetery | 0.2 miles | 1982 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 80000853 in Record Group 79. |
| San Luis Obispo County | All 32 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.