Villa Francesca

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1896.

From the record

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

The listing

Address. 1 Peppertree Dr., Rancho Palos Verdes, 90275
When was it listed? October 1986
Category. building
Census division. Palos Verdes
National Register reference number. 86002796 - 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 1901

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 5 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Villa Francesca, surveyed 1901

Topographic sheet covering Villa Francesca, surveyed 1896

Fires near this property

107 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of Villa Francesca between 2005 and 2020, burning about 511 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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	59
Equipment and vehicle use	20
Smoking	15
Arson/incendiarism	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Debris and open burning	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
8 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
7 September 2011	Smoking	1.0 acres	Los Angeles County Fire Department	not named
6 September 2020	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Los Angeles County Fire Department	not named
6 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Los Angeles County Fire Department	not named
6 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
3 September 2006	Misuse of fire by a minor	5.0 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
29 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
28 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named

Every fire recorded in Los Angeles County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Villa Francesca: 9 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Diatomite, Limestone, General, Dolomite. 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
Hilltop Quarry	Limestone, General, Dolomite	Past Producer
Palos Verdes Stone Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Diatomaceous Earth Deposit	Diatomite	Occurrence
Diatomaceous Earth Quarry	Diatomite	Past Producer
Dicalite	Diatomite	Occurrence
Chandlers Palos Verdes S&G Co.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Edward Sidebotham and Sons, Inc.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Graham Bros.-Lomita Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Livingston Rock and Gravel Co.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Richard Ball	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Los Angeles County

Storms near this property

1 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rancho Palos Verdes, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2000: 1 funnel cloud. 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
March 2000	Funnel Cloud	Rancho Palos Verdes	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Los Angeles County

Maps showing this location

15 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1896 USGS San Pedro quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1901 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1925 USGS San Pedro Hills quadrangle1:24000
1928 USGS San Pedro Hills quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1942 USGS San Pedro Hill quadrangle1:24000
1943 USGS San Pedro quadrangle1:125000
1944 USGS San Pedro quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Long Beach quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1951 USGS San Pedro quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Long Beach quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1958 USGS Long Beach quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Long Beach quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1964 USGS San Pedro quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1981 USGS Long Beach quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Wayfarers Chapel	0.5 miles
Point Vicente Light	2.2 miles	1980
Mirlo Gate Lodge Tower	4.1 miles	2019
Battery Osgood-Farley	4.2 miles	1974
Palos Verdes Public Library and Art Gallery	4.2 miles	1995
Palos Verdes Public Library and Art Gallery- Farnham Martin's Park (Boundary Increase)	4.2 miles	1996

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86002796 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.