Parker House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. 20 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1896.

From the record

One of 136 National Register listings published here for Orange County · listed in 1989 · 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. 163 S. Cypress St., Orange, 92866
When was it listed? August 1989
Category. building
Census division. Anaheim-Santa Ana-Garden Grove
National Register reference number. 89000975 - 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 1983

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Parker House, surveyed 1983

Topographic sheet covering Parker House, surveyed 1896

Fires near this property

220 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 220 fires within 5 miles of Parker House between 1998 and 2020, burning about 6,209 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 26 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	128
Arson/incendiarism	26
Equipment and vehicle use	23
Misuse of fire by a minor	17
Smoking	13
Debris and open burning	8
Natural	4
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
6 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Orange County Fire Authority	not named
6 September 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
30 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Orange County Fire Authority	not named
30 September 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
27 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
26 September 2010	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
26 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	100 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
24 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 27 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of Parker House: 21 past producers, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Mercury, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Calcium. 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	Recorded
Garber Brickk & Tile Co.	Clay	Past Producer
Red Hill Mine	Mercury, Barium-Barite	Past Producer
Santa Ana Plant	Calcium	Producer
Bixby Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Orange Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Red Hill Mine	Mercury	Past Producer	1927
Blue Diamond Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Cunningham and Son	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Garden Grove Sand & Gravel Co.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Orange County

Storms near this property

3 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Orange, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports in 2001: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
February 2001	Tornado (F0)	Orange	$50,000	Witnesses reported hearing a loud roaring sound like a freight train, followed by 45 seconds of intense wind and heavy rain. A funnel cloud was sighted in the area following the wind damage. Damage consisted of roof shingles, skylights, and metal awnings being ripped off six structures, two 10 ft. by 15 ft. roll-up doors being blown in, several wooden fences knocked down, as well as telephone wires. An NWS meteorologist conducting a damage survey noted a cyclonic pattern in the debris.
February 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Orange	$25,000	no account filed
February 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Orange	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Orange County

Maps showing this location

20 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.

1896 USGS Anaheim quadrangle1:62500
1898 USGS Anaheim quadrangle1:62500
1901 USGS Anaheim quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1901 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
1902 USGS Corona quadrangle1:125000 - 7 printings
1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1932 USGS Orange quadrangle1:31680
1935 USGS Orange quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1942 USGS Anaheim quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1947 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS Orange quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Orange quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1964 USGS Orange quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
1965 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Orange quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:100000

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
Consolidated Orange Growers Precooling & Ice Plant	under 500 feet	2021
Plaza Historic District	0.2 miles	1982
Plaza, The	0.2 miles	1978
First Baptist Church of Orange	0.3 miles	1996
Old Towne Orange Historic District	0.3 miles	1997
C. Z. Culver House	0.3 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 89000975 in Record Group 79.
Orange County	All 136 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.