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One of 148 National Register listings published here for San Diego County · listed in 1991 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Charles A. Shaffer House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Shaffer, Charles A., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 5610 La Crescenta, Rancho Santa Fe, 92067
- When was it listed? August 1991
- Category. building
- Also known as. Lilian Rice Designed Buildings in Rancho Santa Fe MPS
- Census division. San Diego
- Architect. Lilian Jeannette Rice
- National Register reference number. 91000944 - 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
1893 to 1996The ground this property stands on, surveyed 103 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Fires near this property
146 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 146 fires within 5 miles of Charles A. Shaffer House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,213 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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 | 77 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 43 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 5 September 2004 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | San Diego Unit | HARMONY |
| 3 September 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.5 acres | San Diego Unit | HORIZON |
| 26 September 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | San Diego Unit | HERRMANN |
| 24 September 2004 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | San Diego Unit | BERNARDO |
| 23 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | San Diego Unit | PALMA |
| 20 September 2011 | Smoking | under an acre | San Diego Unit | not named |
| 2 September 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | San Diego Unit | LA PALMA |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 28 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Charles A. Shaffer House: 11 past producers, 6 prospects, 6 producers, 5 occurrences. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Clay, 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Encinitas | Copper, Lead | Past Producer | Vein | |
| Moonlight Beach Deposit | Gemstone | Occurrence | ||
| Carmean Quarry | Stone | Producer | ||
| Carmean Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Coast Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Greenstone Quarry | Stone | Producer | ||
| Greenstone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Harris Deposit | Aluminum | Producer | ||
| Harris Deposit | Talc-Soapstone, Gold | Past Producer | ||
| Meadowlark Ranch Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
3 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rancho Santa Fe, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2019 and 2026: 1 lightning, 1 debris flow, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2019 | Lightning | Rancho Santa Fe | $2,000 | Broadcast media reported that lightning struck a fence and caused damage to it. 40 cloud-to-ground lightning strikes were observed during this event. |
| February 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rancho Santa Fe | - | Member of the public reports medium-sized tree snapped in half and landed on their car. Picture provided via social media with wind estimates near 30-40 mph. |
| January 2023 | Debris Flow | Rancho Santa Fe | - | CalTrans report of a mudslide leading to rocks and dirt blocking eastbound lanes on Via de Santa Fe near Rancho Santa Fe. |
Maps showing this location
16 surveysUnited 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.
- 1893 USGS Escondido quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1901 USGS Escondido quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
- 1901 USGS San Luis Rey quadrangle1:125000 - 8 printings
- 1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 2 quadrangle1:250000 - 5 printings
- 1942 USGS Escondido quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Rancho Santa Fe quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
- 1949 USGS Rancho Santa Fe quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Rancho Santa Fe quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
- 1982 USGS Oceanside quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
- 1996 USGS Rancho Santa Fe quadrangle1:24000
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Claude and Florence Terwilliger House | 0.7 miles | 1991 |
 | Olivenhain Town Meeting Hall | 1.1 miles | 1993 |
 | Bumann Ranch | 1.4 miles | 2020 |
 | Reginald M. and Constance Clotfelter Row House | 1.6 miles | 1991 |
 | Pearl Baker Row House | 1.6 miles | 1993 |
 | Rancho Santa Fe Land and Improvement Company Office | 1.6 miles | 1991 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 91000944 in Record Group 79. |
| San Diego County | All 148 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.