Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1896.
From the record
“The old Redondo Beach Public Library is a small Spanish mission-style public works building located in Redondo Beach, California. It was built in the 1930s by Lovell Bearse Pemberton and is located adjacent to the Redondo Beach Pier, a popular tourist attraction in the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area.”
Wikipedia article Redondo Beach Public Library, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 616 National Register listings published here for Los Angeles County · listed in 1981 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.81000158- 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 1996
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
100 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
18961996
Fires near this property
102 since 2005
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 102 fires within 5 miles of Redondo Beach Public Library
between 2005 and 2020, burning about 121 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
61
Smoking
13
Equipment and vehicle use
8
Arson/incendiarism
8
Debris and open burning
5
Misuse of fire by a minor
4
Power generation/transmission/distribution
3
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
8 September 2005
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
7 September 2011
Smoking
1.0 acres
Los Angeles County Fire Department
not named
6 September 2020
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1.0 acres
Los Angeles County Fire Department
not named
22 September 2010
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1.0 acres
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
20 September 2019
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Los Angeles County Fire Department
not named
17 September 2005
Equipment and vehicle use
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
12 September 2007
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
17 workings within 5 miles of Redondo Beach Public Library: 11 past producers, 3 producers, 2 occurrences, 1 plant.
4 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Titanium, Metal, Silica, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Redondo Beach, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1997 and 2000: 1 storm surge/tide, 1 rip current.
The reports record 1 death and 27 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.
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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