BlockFrom the record
One of 136 National Register listings published here for Orange County · listed in 1984 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Sherman Stevens House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. 20 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1896.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Stevens, Sherman, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 228 W. Main St., Tustin, 92780
- When was it listed? January 1984
- Category. building
- Census division. Anaheim-Santa Ana-Garden Grove
- National Register reference number. 84000926 - 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 1983The ground this property stands on, surveyed 87 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
261 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 261 fires within 5 miles of Sherman Stevens House between 2005 and 2020, burning about 213 acres in total. 3 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 | 152 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 37 |
| Smoking | 30 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 21 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 13 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 30 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Orange County Fire Authority | not named |
| 3 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 28 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 28 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 28 September 2005 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 27 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 26 September 2010 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 13 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Sherman Stevens House: 11 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Mercury, Clay, Calcium. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles Pressed Brick Co. | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Red Hill Mine | Mercury, Barium-Barite | Past Producer | ||
| Santa Ana Plant | Calcium | Producer | ||
| Red Hill Mine | Mercury | Past Producer | 1927 | |
| Blue Diamond Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Cunningham and Son | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Garden Grove Sand & Gravel Co. | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| L. O. Swartzbaugh | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
5 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tustin, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2000 and 2023: 1 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 death. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2000 | Hail | Tustin | 1 killed, $75,000 | no account filed |
| October 2004 | Flash Flood | Tustin | $15,000 | Five vehicles were submerged when highway 55 flooded at 4th street. |
| February 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tustin | $2,000 | A tree landed on the roof of home in Tustin on Green Valley Drive from strong winds in line of heavy rain with embedded thunder. |
| January 2023 | Flood | Tustin | - | Widespread heavy rain fell from late morning on January 14 through much of the afternoon. Rain accumulations of 1.25 inch to 2 inches were common across inland Orange County, resulting in widespread flooding reports. The following are reports of flooding from the Department of Highways.||Both lanes of the I-5 north offramp was 4th Ave was flooded in Santa Ana. Four vehicles were stuck in the flood waters.||Farther south, three vehicles were stuck in the flooded onramp to northbound I-5 at Crown Valley Pkwy in Laguna Niguel. |
| May 2005 | Funnel Cloud | Tustin | - | A trained spotter shot video of a funnel cloud passing over the Tustin Ranch area. The funnel cloud never made it more than half way to the ground. |
Maps showing this location
20 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 Santa Ana quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1901 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
- 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
- 1932 USGS Tustin quadrangle1:31680
- 1935 USGS Tustin quadrangle1:31680 - 3 printings
- 1942 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1947 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Tustin quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Tustin quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Tustin quadrangle1:24000
- 1965 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Tustin quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1974 USGS Tustin quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:100000
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | David Hewes House | under 500 feet | 2017 |
 | Artz Building | 0.2 miles | 1994 |
 | Pacific Electric Sub-Station No. 14 | 2.0 miles | 1983 |
| Harmon-McNeil House | 2.2 miles | 1985 | |
 | Lighter-than-Air Ship Hangars | 2.2 miles | 1975 |
| French Park Historic District | 2.3 miles | 1999 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 84000926 in Record Group 79. |
| 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.