Irvine Park

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. 17 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.

From the record

One of 136 National Register listings published here for Orange County · listed in 1983 · category: Site.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. 21401 Chapman Ave., Orange, 92869
When was it listed? April 1983
Category. site
Census division. Anaheim-Santa Ana-Garden Grove
Architect. Frederick Eley
National Register reference number. 83001215 - 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

1901 to 1997

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Irvine Park, surveyed 1997

Topographic sheet covering Irvine Park, surveyed 1901

Fires near this property

54 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Irvine Park between 1995 and 2020, burning about 15,009 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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	29
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Arson/incendiarism	5
Smoking	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Natural	1
Debris and open burning	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
5 September 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	8.0 acres	Cleveland National Forest	IRVINE
9 August 2004	Arson/incendiarism	30 acres	Cleveland National Forest	BLACKSTAR
8 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Riverside Unit	HIGHWAY
6 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Orange County Fire Authority	not named
5 August 2018	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
26 August 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Orange County Fire Authority	not named
17 August 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Orange County Fire Authority	not named
15 August 2019	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Orange County Fire Authority	not named

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Irvine Park: 12 past producers, 6 producers, 1 occurrence. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Mercury, Barium-Barite. 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	Recorded
Red Hill Mine	Mercury, Barium-Barite	Past Producer
Red Hill Mine	Mercury	Past Producer	1927
Gypsum Canyon Pit	Clay	Producer
Gypsum Canyon Pit	Clay	Producer
Irvine Shale Mine	Clay	Occurrence
Sierra Mine	Clay	Past Producer
Unnamed Clay Prospect	Clay	Past Producer
Blue Diamond Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
El Toro Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Orange County

Storms near this property

3 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Orange, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports in 2001: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 2001	Tornado (F0)	Orange	$50,000	Witnesses reported hearing a loud roaring sound like a freight train, followed by 45 seconds of intense wind and heavy rain. A funnel cloud was sighted in the area following the wind damage. Damage consisted of roof shingles, skylights, and metal awnings being ripped off six structures, two 10 ft. by 15 ft. roll-up doors being blown in, several wooden fences knocked down, as well as telephone wires. An NWS meteorologist conducting a damage survey noted a cyclonic pattern in the debris.
February 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Orange	$25,000	no account filed
February 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Orange	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Orange County

Maps showing this location

17 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1901 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
1902 USGS Corona quadrangle1:125000 - 7 printings
1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1942 USGS Corona quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1943 USGS Corona quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS Black Star Canyon quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1949 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Black Star Canyon quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1965 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Black Star Canyon quadrangle1:24000 - 7 printings
1974 USGS Black Star Canyon quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:100000
1997 USGS Black Star Canyon quadrangle1:24000

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
Smith and Clark Brothers Ranch and Grounds	3.3 miles	1983
Villa Park School	3.9 miles	2003
Sherman Stevens House	5.8 miles	1984
David Hewes House	5.8 miles	2017
Lewis Ainsworth House	5.8 miles	1981
St. John's Lutheran Church	5.9 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83001215 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Orange County	All 136 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.