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Photograph of Old Santa Rosa Catholic Church and Cemetery
Photograph by Mx. Granger, CC0 1.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Old Santa Rosa Catholic Church and Cemetery

Built in 1870. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1919.

From the record

“The Old Santa Rosa Catholic Church and Cemetery is a historic church building and cemetery on Main Street in Cambria, San Luis Obispo County, California. Built from 1870 to 1871, the church was the first in Cambria and is one of the oldest remaining buildings in the town.”

Wikipedia article Old Santa Rosa Catholic Church and Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 32 National Register listings published here for San Luis Obispo County · listed in 1982 · category: Building · built in 1870.

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, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Main St., Cambria, 93428
  • When was it listed? October 1982
  • Category. building
  • Census division. North Coast
  • When was it built? 1870
  • National Register reference number. 82000990 - 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

111 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 111 fires within 5 miles of Old Santa Rosa Catholic Church and Cemetery between 1992 and 2020, burning about 359 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/undetermined48
Equipment and vehicle use33
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Debris and open burning6
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
9 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Luis Obispo UnitBURTON DR CAMBRIA 71
9 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCentral California DistrictUNNAMED FIRE 1901
3 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSan Luis Obispo UnitMOONSTONE
28 September 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Luis Obispo UnitNOEL WY SLO_CO
26 September 2003Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSan Luis Obispo UnitCREEK
25 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Luis Obispo UnitVILLAGE
23 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSan Luis Obispo UnitTRENTON ST CMB
23 September 1999Naturalunder an acreSan Luis Obispo UnitSMOKE CHECK

Every fire recorded in San Luis Obispo County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 26 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 26 workings within 5 miles of Old Santa Rosa Catholic Church and Cemetery: 17 past producers, 4 producers, 3 occurrences, 2 prospects. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Mercury, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
Mora Brothers QuarryStonePast Producer
Phelan ProspectManganeseOccurrence1918
Rogers Ranch OccurrenceChromiumOccurrenceChromite
San Simeon Creek DepositAntimonyPast Producer
San Simeon Creek Shell DepositsCalciumOccurrence
Bianchi QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Cambria PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Rancho San Simeon PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
CambriaMercuryPast Producer1903
Cambria MineMercuryPast Producer

Every working recorded in San Luis Obispo County

Storms near this property

3 since 2008

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2025Thunderstorm WindCambria$1,000Strong thunderstorms generated gusty winds. A large tree was knocked down across Santa Rosa Creek Road.
September 2025Thunderstorm WindCambria$1,000Strong thunderstorms generated gusty winds in the community of Cambria. Law enforcement reported a tree was knocked down.
January 2008Flash FloodCambria-California Highway Patrol reported flash flooding along San Simeon Creek Road.

Every storm recorded in San Luis Obispo County

Maps showing this location

10 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

1 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
Guthrie House0.2 miles1980

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 82000990 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
San Luis Obispo CountyAll 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.