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Battery John Barlow and Saxton

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1896.

From the record

One of 616 National Register listings published here for Los Angeles County · listed in 1982 · category: Structure.

Sources: 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 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Fort MacArthur, San Pedro, 90731
When was it listed? May 1982
Category. structure
Census division. Los Angeles
National Register reference number. 82002200 - 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 1901

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 5 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Battery John Barlow and Saxton, surveyed 1901

Topographic sheet covering Battery John Barlow and Saxton, surveyed 1896

Fires near this property

53 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Battery John Barlow and Saxton between 2005 and 2020, burning about 281 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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	27
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Smoking	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Debris and open burning	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
6 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Los Angeles County Fire Department	not named
3 September 2006	Misuse of fire by a minor	5.0 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
29 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
28 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
7 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Los Angeles County Fire Department	not named
29 August 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
27 August 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	230 acres	Los Angeles County Fire Department	PV
11 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named

Every fire recorded in Los Angeles County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Battery John Barlow and Saxton: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Dolomite, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Hilltop Quarry	Limestone, General, Dolomite	Past Producer
Lynn Brick Co.	Clay	Past Producer
Edward Sidebotham and Sons, Inc.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Graham Bros.-Lomita Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Livingston Rock and Gravel Co.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Los Angeles County

Storms near this property

2 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names San Pedro, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1999 and 2026: 1 funnel cloud, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	San Pedro	-	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down several trees in the San Pedro area.
June 1999	Funnel Cloud	San Pedro	-	Los Angeles County Fire Department reported three funnel clouds south of San Pedro, just off Point Fermin.

Every storm recorded in Los Angeles County

Maps showing this location

14 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.

1896 USGS San Pedro quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1901 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1923 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:24000
1925 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1943 USGS San Pedro quadrangle1:125000
1944 USGS San Pedro quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Long Beach quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1951 USGS San Pedro quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Long Beach quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1958 USGS Long Beach quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Long Beach quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1964 USGS San Pedro quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1981 USGS Long Beach quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings

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
American Trona Corporation Building	0.5 miles	1984
Point Fermin Historic District	0.5 miles	2021
Battery Osgood-Farley	0.7 miles	1974
Point Fermin Lighthouse	0.8 miles	1972
LANE VICTORY	1.3 miles	1990
Municipal Warehouse No. 1	1.4 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82002200 in Record Group 79.
Los Angeles County	All 616 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.