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One of 616 National Register listings published here for Los Angeles County · listed in 1987 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Hawkins-Nimocks Estate-Patricio Ontiveros Adobe
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. 19 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1896.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 4 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Hawkins--Nimocks Estate-Patricio Ontiveros Adobe - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 12100 Telegraph Rd., Santa Fe Springs, 90670
- When was it listed? December 1987
- Category. district
- Census division. Whittier
- National Register reference number. 82004982 - 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 1901The 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.
Fires near this property
372 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 372 fires within 5 miles of Hawkins-Nimocks Estate-Patricio Ontiveros Adobe between 2005 and 2020, burning about 4,520 acres in total. None started naturally. 37 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 | 260 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 37 |
| Smoking | 27 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 21 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 19 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 6 September 2009 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 5 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 5 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 5 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 5 September 2005 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 30 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 30 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
7 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Hawkins-Nimocks Estate-Patricio Ontiveros Adobe: 4 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atlas Sewer Pipe Co | Clay | Prospect | Sedimentary | |
| Atlas Sewer Pipe Co. Pit | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Pacific Clay Products Co | Clay | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Pacific Clay Products Co. East Pit | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Santa Fe Springs Plant | Clay | Producer | ||
| Simons Brick Co.-Montebello Plant | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| W. H. Russell | Clay | Occurrence |
Maps showing this location
19 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.
- 1896 USGS Downey quadrangle1:62500
- 1899 USGS Downey quadrangle1:62500
- 1901 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
- 1902 USGS Downey quadrangle1:62500 - 9 printings
- 1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1923 USGS Whittier quadrangle1:24000
- 1925 USGS Whittier quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1942 USGS Downey quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Downey quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1943 USGS San Pedro quadrangle1:125000
- 1949 USGS Long Beach quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Whittier quadrangle1:24000
- 1951 USGS Whittier 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
- 1965 USGS Whittier quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
- 1974 USGS Whittier quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Long Beach quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings
Listed places nearby
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Clarke Estate | 0.4 miles | 1990 |
 | Paddison Ranch Buildings | 1.5 miles | 1978 |
 | Darius David Johnston House | 2.9 miles | 1978 |
 | Orin Jordan House | 2.9 miles | 1980 |
 | Southern Pacific Railroad Depot, Whittier | 3.3 miles | 2005 |
 | Standard Oil Building | 3.4 miles | 1980 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 82004982 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.