Minerva Club of Santa Maria

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1905.

From the record

One of 38 National Register listings published here for Santa Barbara County · listed in 1984 · category: Building.

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 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 127 W. Boone St., Santa Maria, 93458
When was it listed? September 1984
Category. building
Census division. Santa Maria
Architect. Julia Morgan
National Register reference number. 84001193 - 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

1905 to 1989

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 84 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Minerva Club of Santa Maria, surveyed 1989

Topographic sheet covering Minerva Club of Santa Maria, surveyed 1905

Fires near this property

220 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 220 fires within 5 miles of Minerva Club of Santa Maria between 1992 and 2020, burning about 194 acres in total. None started naturally. 12 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	142
Equipment and vehicle use	36
Arson/incendiarism	12
Misuse of fire by a minor	12
Debris and open burning	8
Smoking	7
Recreation and ceremony	2
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
9 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
7 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
6 September 2019	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Santa Barbara County Fire Department	not named
5 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
4 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
4 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
24 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	San Luis Obispo Unit	RIVER BOTTOM
23 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	San Luis Obispo Unit	HOLDER PARK

Every fire recorded in Santa Barbara County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Minerva Club of Santa Maria: 5 producers, 3 past producers, 1 unknown. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Colson Canyon Pit Number 2	Stone	Producer
Kolrich Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Tepusquet Quarry Number One	Stone, Dimension	Unknown
Gravel Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Santa Maria Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Santa Maria Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Santa Maria River Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Santa Maria River Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Santa Barbara County

Storms near this property

4 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Santa Maria, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1996 and 2010: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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
November 2010	Flash Flood	Santa Maria	-	Heavy rain produced flash flooding in the community of Santa Maria. A trained weather spotter reported one half inch of rain in 5 minutes. With such intense rainfall, there were numerous reports of significant flooding in the city of Santa Maria.
November 2001	Tornado (F0)	Santa Maria	-	A weak tornado struck in the northeast section of the community of Santa Maria. The tornado caused minor damage to three homes, but no one was injured.
November 1998	Flood	Santa Maria	-	no account filed
December 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Santa Maria	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Santa Barbara 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.

1905 USGS Lompoc quadrangle1:125000 - 7 printings
1942 USGS Lompoc quadrangle1:125000
1942 USGS Santa Maria quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Lompoc quadrangle1:125000
1947 USGS Santa Maria quadrangle1:62500
1948 USGS Santa Maria quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Santa Maria quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Santa Maria quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Santa Maria quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Santa Maria quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1959 USGS Santa Maria quadrangle1:24000 - 6 printings
1962 USGS Santa Maria quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Santa Maria quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1989 USGS Santa Maria quadrangle1:250000

Listed places nearby

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Royal Theater (Additional Documentation)	7.9 miles	2022

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84001193 in Record Group 79.
Santa Barbara County	All 38 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.