Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.
From the record
“Casa Romantica, officially known as the Casa Romantica Cultural Center and Gardens, is a historic building in San Clemente, California. It was the home of Ole Hanson who co-founded the city of San Clemente.”
Wikipedia article Casa Romantica, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 136 National Register listings published here for Orange County · listed in 1991 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.91001900- 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
64 since 1994
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Casa Romantica
between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,580 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 16 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
22
Arson/incendiarism
16
Misuse of fire by a minor
7
Smoking
7
Equipment and vehicle use
6
Debris and open burning
3
Natural
2
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
7 September 2007
Arson/incendiarism
1.0 acres
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
13 September 2009
Smoking
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
10 September 2011
Misuse of fire by a minor
under an acre
Orange County Fire Authority
not named
7 August 2012
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Orange County Fire Authority
not named
6 August 1995
Equipment and vehicle use
under an acre
San Bernardino National Forest
GORDON
31 August 2019
Smoking
under an acre
Orange County Fire Authority
not named
26 August 2007
Natural
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
8 workings within 5 miles of Casa Romantica: 6 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 prospect.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Limestone, General, Stone, Dimension. 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
San Clemente, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 7 flood, 6 funnel cloud, 2 heavy rain, 2 wildfire.
The reports record 2 injuries. 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.
Orange County officials estimate the total damages to public and private property at $36 million, due the 10+ of rain received by many areas. The city of Laguna Beach was certainly the hardest hit, making up approximately $12 million of the county's damages. Twelve miles of beaches in the county also had to be closed due to massive amounts of debris and pollution in storm runoff.
A significant landslide occurred following heavy rain in San Clemente on the 1500 block of Buena Vista the morning of March 15. All buildings were immediately evacuated, with no injuries reported. At least four apartment buildings had been red-tagged by the afternoon (deemed too dangerous to enter).
A funnel cloud was sighted by several people in south San Clemente near the Orange County and San Diego County border. One house was damaged, though most likely wet microburst damage, tornado not confirmed.
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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