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One of 148 National Register listings published here for San Diego County · listed in 1986 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Charles A. Braun House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 6 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Braun, Charles A., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 790 Vale View Dr., Vista, 92081
- When was it listed? January 1986
- Category. building
- Census division. Oceanside-Escondido
- National Register reference number. 86000010 - 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
1893 to 1996The ground this property stands on, surveyed 103 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
344 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 344 fires within 5 miles of Charles A. Braun House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 694 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 53 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 | 180 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 58 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 53 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 19 |
| Smoking | 14 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Natural | 4 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | San Diego Unit | ELISO |
| 8 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | San Diego Unit | not named |
| 8 September 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | San Diego Unit | WINTERHAVEN |
| 7 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 6 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 6 September 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | San Diego Unit | TWIN OAKS |
| 4 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 3 September 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | San Diego Unit | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 40 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 40 workings within 5 miles of Charles A. Braun House: 27 past producers, 12 producers, 1 prospect. 12 still produce. What was taken out: Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crystal Silica Company | Silica | Past Producer | ||
| Hogerman Property | Beryllium | Prospect | ||
| Kelly Ranch Mine | Clay | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Kelly Ranch Mine | Stone, Dimension | Past Producer | ||
| Evans Point Deposit | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Marrow Quarry | Stone | Producer | ||
| Carlsbad Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Mission Road Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| South Coast Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| U. S. Silica Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
8 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vista, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2000 and 2023: 3 flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 dust devil, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vista | $60,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds damaged 8 buildings and downed power lines in Vista. A tornado is possible, but still under investigation. |
| April 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vista | $10,000 | no account filed |
| September 2004 | Dust Devil | Vista | $100 | A strong dust devil ripped a sign off a fence and threw it 40 feet away over a house. Other debris was seen flying through the air around the dust devil. |
| February 2023 | Flood | Vista | - | CalTrans report of flooding across both lanes of Foothill Drive due to heavy rain. |
| March 2022 | Flood | Vista | - | Vista Village Drive and High 78 off-ramp completely flooded towards bottom, reported by CHP Caltrans. No rain gauges in Vista, but Palomar-Carlsbad airport had 0.95 inch total and downstream Deer Springs had 1.27 inches. |
| July 2005 | Heavy Rain | Vista | - | Many residents in San Diego County awoke during the early morning hours of the 23rd to the sound of heavy rain and thunder as tropical moisture associated with the remnants of former hurricane Emily brought widespread thunderstorms from the desert to the coast. The Cooperative Observer in Vista measured 0.75 inches of rain and reported that lightning had sparked some fires. A nearby trained spotter measured 0.70 inches in 30 minutes. Considerable debris cloudiness would limit thunderstorm activity in San Diego County that afternoon, however much stronger heating and instability to the north triggered severe thunderstorms in Riverside County. |
| October 2004 | Flash Flood | Vista | - | Heavy rains at Gopher Canyon left 1 1/2 feet of water across roadways. |
| December 2002 | Flood | Vista | - | no account filed |
Maps showing this location
16 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.
- 1893 USGS Escondido quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1901 USGS Escondido quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
- 1901 USGS San Luis Rey quadrangle1:125000 - 8 printings
- 1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 2 quadrangle1:250000 - 5 printings
- 1942 USGS Escondido quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS San Marcos quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1949 USGS San Marcos quadrangle1:24000
- 1949 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
- 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
- 1968 USGS San Marcos quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
- 1982 USGS Oceanside quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
- 1996 USGS San Marcos quadrangle1:24000
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Rancho Guajome Adobe | 3.1 miles | 1970 |
 | Rancho De Los Kiotes | 4.7 miles | 1992 |
 | San Luis Rey Mission Church | 5.3 miles | 1970 |
 | Carlsbad Santa Fe Depot | 6.2 miles | 1993 |
 | Rosicrucian Fellowship Temple | 6.6 miles | 1995 |
 | Charles Libby House | 6.9 miles | 1978 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 86000010 in Record Group 79. |
| San Diego County | All 148 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.