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Photograph of Woman's Club of Redondo Beach
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Woman's Club of Redondo Beach

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1896.

From the record

“The Woman's Club of Redondo Beach is part of the California Federation of Women's Clubs (CFWC) and was founded in 1908. Included in the Mission Statement of the Woman's Club of Redondo Beach is the care and preservation of their Clubhouse which was built in 1922 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.”

Wikipedia article Woman's Club of Redondo Beach, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 616 National Register listings published here for Los Angeles County · listed in 1984 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 400 S. Broadway, Redondo Beach, 90277
  • When was it listed? April 1984
  • Category. building
  • Census division. South Bay Cities
  • National Register reference number. 84000900 - 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.

Topographic sheet covering Woman's Club of Redondo Beach, surveyed 1996
Topographic sheet covering Woman's Club of Redondo Beach, surveyed 1896

Fires near this property

109 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 109 fires within 5 miles of Woman's Club of Redondo Beach between 2005 and 2020, burning about 334 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/undetermined63
Smoking17
Equipment and vehicle use9
Arson/incendiarism8
Debris and open burning5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3

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
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 September 2011Smoking1.0 acresLos Angeles County Fire Departmentnot named
6 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresLos Angeles County Fire Departmentnot named
22 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
20 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLos Angeles County Fire Departmentnot named
17 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
12 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
13 August 2007Smokingunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named

Every fire recorded in Los Angeles County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Woman's Club of Redondo Beach: 14 past producers, 3 producers, 2 occurrences, 1 plant. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Diatomite, Titanium, Metal. 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
Burdick Minerals Corp.Titanium, LeadPast Producer
Palos Verdes Stone QuarryStonePast Producer
Caswell & Co.SilicaPast Producer
Chandlers Palos Verdes S&G Co.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
CliftonTitanium, MetalProducer
Clifton-Redondo PlacerTitanium, MetalProducerIlmenite
Diatomaceous Earth DepositDiatomiteOccurrence
Diatomaceous Earth QuarryDiatomitePast Producer
DicaliteDiatomiteOccurrence
Lawrence I. Liston Co.-Madrona AveSilicaPast Producer

Every working recorded in Los Angeles County

Storms near this property

2 since 1997

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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 2000Rip CurrentRedondo Beach1 killedno account filed
January 1997Storm Surge/TideRedondo Beach27 hurtno account filed

Every storm recorded in Los Angeles County

Maps showing this location

16 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

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Redondo Beach Public Library0.2 miles1981
Diamond Apartments0.5 miles1992
Redondo Beach Original Townsite Historic District0.7 miles1988
Sweetser Residence0.9 miles1985
Malaga Cove Plaza2.5 miles2021
Palos Verdes Public Library and Art Gallery2.6 miles1995

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 84000900 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Los Angeles CountyAll 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.