Built in 1902 (Romanesque Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.
From the record
“The Arroyo Grande IOOF Hall is a building in Arroyo Grande, California, that was built in 1902. The building housed the town's chapter of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, which was established in 1887.”
Wikipedia article Arroyo Grande IOOF Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 32 National Register listings published here for San Luis Obispo County · listed in 1991 · category: Building · built in 1902, Romanesque Revival architecture.
National Register reference number.91000344- 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.
Fires near this property
440 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 440 fires within 5 miles of Arroyo Grande IOOF Hall
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,960 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 20 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
216
Equipment and vehicle use
112
Debris and open burning
34
Arson/incendiarism
20
Misuse of fire by a minor
20
Smoking
14
Power generation/transmission/distribution
9
Natural
7
Recreation and ceremony
7
Other causes
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
8 September 2009
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
20 workings within 5 miles of Arroyo Grande IOOF Hall: 7 past producers, 7 occurrences, 6 producers.
6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Uranium, Diatomite. 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
Arroyo Grande, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 2025: 2 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.
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.
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.
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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