Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1915.
From the record
“The Porter-Vallejo Mansion, located at 29 Bishop St. in Pajaro, California, is a historic Queen Anne style house that was designed by architect William Henry Weeks. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.”
Wikipedia article Porter-Vallejo Mansion, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 64 National Register listings published here for Monterey County · listed in 1990 · category: District.
Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
Architect. W. H. Weeks
National Register reference number.89002273- 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
1915 to 1948
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
33 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19151948
Fires near this property
445 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 445 fires within 5 miles of Porter-Vallejo Mansion
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,161 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 42 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
207
Equipment and vehicle use
97
Debris and open burning
49
Arson/incendiarism
42
Misuse of fire by a minor
21
Power generation/transmission/distribution
9
Recreation and ceremony
8
Smoking
8
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
9 September 2016
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
2 workings within 5 miles of Porter-Vallejo Mansion: 1 occurrence, 1 past producer.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Titanium, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Pajaro, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 1 flash flood, 1 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.
A levee on the Pajaro River east of the community of Pajaro was overtopped overnight, and subsequently failed, flooding the community of Pajaro and surrounding farmland. The area was evacuated, with residents only able to return after two weeks.
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.
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.
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