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One of 616 National Register listings published here for Los Angeles County · listed in 1986 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Pitzer House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. 22 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 4353 N. Towne, Claremont, 91711
- When was it listed? September 1986
- Category. building
- Census division. East San Gabriel Valley
- National Register reference number. 86002192 - 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
1897 to 1982The ground this property stands on, surveyed 85 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
432 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 432 fires within 5 miles of Pitzer House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,324 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 79 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 | 187 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 79 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 41 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 37 |
| Smoking | 26 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 19 |
| Debris and open burning | 14 |
| Fireworks | 14 |
| Natural | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Angeles National Forest | ROCKY |
| 6 September 1995 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Angeles National Forest | POWER |
| 5 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Los Angeles County Fire Department | not named |
| 5 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 5 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Angeles National Forest | STATION |
| 5 September 2004 | Smoking | under an acre | Angeles National Forest | PALMER |
| 4 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Los Angeles County Fire Department | not named |
| 4 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Angeles National Forest | RESERVOIR |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 14 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Pitzer House: 9 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, Stone, Dimension. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eva Canyon | Graphite | Occurrence | ||
| Lordsburg Deposit | Stone | Producer | ||
| Lordsburg Deposit | Stone, Dimension | Past Producer | ||
| San Antonio Canyon Corundum | Corundum | Occurrence | ||
| San Dimas Barite Deposit | Barium-Barite | Past Producer | ||
| San Dimas Rock Co. | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Upland South Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Pomona Brick Co | Clay | Prospect | Sedimentary | |
| Unnamed Location | Clay | Unknown | ||
| Claremont Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
4 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Claremont, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2003 and 2022: 2 flash flood, 1 wildfire, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2022 | Flash Flood | Claremont | - | California Highway Patrol reported flash flooding along Mount Baldy Road, about 6 miles north-northeast of Claremont. |
| September 2007 | Flash Flood | Claremont | - | Strong monsoonal thunderstorms over the Los Angeles county mountains produced flash flooding between Mountain High ski resort and the community of Wrightwood. |
| January 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Claremont | - | A severe thunderstorm moved through the community of Claremont in Los Angeles County. Law enforcement reported numerous trees and power lines down due to thunderstorm winds gusting to 68 MPH. |
| October 2003 | Wildfire | Claremont | - | The Padua Fire, aided by gusty Santa Ana winds, burned thousands of acres in Los Angeles County. As of the end of the month, the fire had yet to be fully contained. The fire had burned over 8,000 acres by the end of October. |
Maps showing this location
22 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.
- 1897 USGS Cucamonga quadrangle1:62500
- 1900 USGS Cucamonga quadrangle1:62500
- 1901 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
- 1903 USGS Cucamonga quadrangle1:62500 - 11 printings
- 1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1928 USGS La Verne quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1933 USGS La Verne and Evey Canyon quadrangle1:24000
- 1933 USGS Ontario quadrangle1:31680
- 1940 USGS La Verne quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
- 1940 USGS La Verne quadrangle1:20000
- 1942 USGS Ontario and Vicinity quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
- 1944 USGS Cucamonga quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Ontario quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Ontario quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
- 1956 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Ontario quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
- 1982 USGS San Bernardino 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Peter Drucker House | 1.0 miles | 2017 |
 | Charles E. Straight House | 1.8 miles | 1992 |
 | Scripps College for Women | 2.0 miles | 1984 |
 | Ygnacio Palomares Adobe | 2.1 miles | 1971 |
 | Helen Goodwin Renwick House | 2.2 miles | 2016 |
 | Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Station | 2.2 miles | 1982 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 86002192 in Record Group 79. |
| Los Angeles County | All 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.