John Price House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.

From the record

“The John Price House, also known as the Price Anniversary House, is a historic house in Pismo Beach, California. Built from 1893 to 1894 for city founder John Michael Price, the house is the oldest building in Pismo Beach.”
Wikipedia article John Price House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 32 National Register listings published here for San Luis Obispo County · listed in 1988 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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.
Listed as. Price, John, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Highland Dr. off Price Canyon Rd., Pismo Beach, 93449
When was it listed? November 1988
Category. district
Census division. Arroyo Grande
National Register reference number. 88002013 - 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 1998

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 101 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering John Price House, surveyed 1998

Topographic sheet covering John Price House, surveyed 1897

Fires near this property

364 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 364 fires within 5 miles of John Price House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,122 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 19 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	188
Equipment and vehicle use	85
Debris and open burning	24
Arson/incendiarism	19
Misuse of fire by a minor	15
Smoking	15
Recreation and ceremony	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Natural	4

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 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
8 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	San Luis Obispo Unit	OCEANO DUNES STATE PA 125
5 September 1992	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	San Luis Obispo Unit	SLU 2313
4 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	San Luis Obispo Unit	EMS3CDF/
4 September 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	San Luis Obispo Unit	TIFFANY
30 September 2020	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	San Luis Obispo Unit	FAIR OAKS AVE AG
30 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	San Luis Obispo Unit	ONTARIO RD / SAN LUIS BAY
3 September 2007	Smoking	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named

Every fire recorded in San Luis Obispo County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of John Price House: 8 occurrences, 7 past producers, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Diatomite, Pumice, 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
Arroyo Grande Creek Deposit	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Occurrence
Oceano Sand Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Owen Group	Uranium	Producer
Unnamed Limestone Deposit	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Unnamed Pumice Occurrence	Pumice	Occurrence
Unnamed Pumice Occurrence	Pumice	Occurrence
Los Penascos Ranch Deposit	Diatomite	Occurrence
Pismo Heights Co.	Diatomite	Occurrence
Unnamed Diatomite Deposit	Diatomite	Occurrence
Unnamed Diatomite Deposit	Diatomite	Occurrence

Every working recorded in San Luis Obispo County

Storms near this property

4 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pismo Beach, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 2 flood, 1 waterspout, 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 2023	Flash Flood	Pismo Beach	-	Significant flash flooding reported near Dolliver and Highway 1 intersection.
April 1998	Waterspout	Pismo Beach	-	A waterspout was reported by the Pismo Beach Fire Department.
January 2001	Flood	Pismo Beach	-	no account filed
November 1998	Flood	Pismo Beach	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in San Luis Obispo County

Maps showing this location

12 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.

1897 USGS Arroyo Grande quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1900 USGS San Luis quadrangle1:125000 - 4 printings
1942 USGS Arroyo Grande quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1947 USGS San Luis Obispo quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS San Luis Obispo quadrangle1:250000
1952 USGS Arroyo Grande quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1956 USGS San Luis Obispo quadrangle1:250000 - 5 printings
1957 USGS San Luis Obispo quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS San Luis Obispo quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Pismo Beach quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1981 USGS San Luis Obispo quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings
1998 USGS Pismo Beach quadrangle1:24000

Listed places nearby

5 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
Corral de Piedra	3.3 miles	1978
Arroyo Grande IOOF Hall	3.9 miles	1991
Halcyon Historic District	4.0 miles	2017
Pereira Octagon Barn	6.5 miles	2014
San Luis Obispo Light Station	6.8 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88002013 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
San Luis Obispo County	All 32 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.