Washington Building

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1894 1979

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of Washington Building between 2005 and 2020, burning about 45 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Every fire recorded in Los Angeles County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Washington Building: 8 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Los Angeles County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Culver City, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 2008: 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.

Every storm recorded in Los Angeles County

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.

• 1894 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:62500
• 1896 USGS Santa Monica quadrangle1:62500
• 1898 USGS Santa Monica quadrangle1:62500
• 1900 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
• 1901 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
• 1902 USGS Santa Monica quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
• 1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
• 1920 USGS Santa Monica quadrangle1:62500
• 1921 USGS Santa Monica quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
• 1924 USGS Hollywood quadrangle1:24000
• 1926 USGS Hollywood quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
• 1949 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
• 1950 USGS Beverly Hills quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
• 1955 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
• 1966 USGS Beverly Hills quadrangle1:24000 - 6 printings
• 1966 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000
• 1975 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
• 1979 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:100000
• 1995 USGS Beverly Hills quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings

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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Culver Hotel	0.1 miles	1997
	Citizens Publishing Company Building	0.3 miles	1987
	Los Angeles Pacific Company Ivy Park Substation	0.4 miles	1981
	Baldwin Hills Village	2.0 miles	1993
	Mar Vista Gardens	2.1 miles	2018
	Memorial Branch	2.4 miles	1987