BlockFrom the record
One of 42 National Register listings published here for Santa Cruz County · listed in 1992 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Bayview Hotel
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1912.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 8041 Soquel Dr., Aptos, 95003
- When was it listed? March 1992
- Category. building
- Census division. Santa Cruz
- National Register reference number. 92000259 - 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
1912 to 1974The ground this property stands on, surveyed 62 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
417 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 417 fires within 5 miles of Bayview Hotel between 1992 and 2020, burning about 227 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 38 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 | 85 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 38 |
| Debris and open burning | 33 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 17 |
| Smoking | 13 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 13 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 8 |
| Natural | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | San Mateo-Santa Cruz Unit | PALMER |
| 8 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 6 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 6 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | San Mateo-Santa Cruz Unit | not named |
| 6 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | San Mateo-Santa Cruz Unit | CATHEDRAL |
| 6 September 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | San Mateo-Santa Cruz Unit | ZIGLER |
| 5 September 2011 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | San Mateo-Santa Cruz Unit | PORTER |
| 3 September 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
8 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Bayview Hotel: 3 producers, 3 occurrences, 2 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Titanium, Metal, Chromium, Titanium. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aptos Placer | Iron, Titanium, Metal | Producer | Ilmenite, Magnetite | |
| Triumph Steel Co | Iron, Chromium, Titanium | Occurrence | ||
| Cabrillo Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Gibson Sand Fit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Gibson Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Santa Cruz Sand Pit and Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Titus Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Location | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence |
Storms near this property
4 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Aptos, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2021: 2 debris flow, 1 flood, 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2009 | Flood | Aptos | $15,000 | A fatal accident occurred just after 4:00 p.m. on northbound Highway 1 near Rio Del Mar Boulevard when a car spun out on the wet highway, went over an embankment and struck a tree. The 29-year-old male driver sustained minor injuries while the 27-year-old female passenger was fatality injured. |
| December 2012 | Debris Flow | Aptos | $1,000 | Highland Way in the Santa Cruz Mountains was blocked by a mudlside. The road was initially flooded due to heavy rain and then a mudslide ocurred shortly after. The slide blocked all traffic and closed the road. Public works estimated the road will be closed for one week. |
| January 2021 | Debris Flow | Aptos | - | A mudslide occurred in the Aptos Hills on Valencia School Rd around midnight. A 50 foot section of a rain soaked roadway gave way and a PG&E rig fell about 150 feet down the hillside https://www.ksbw.com/article/santa-cruz-utility-worker-tumbles-down-150-foot-hillside-during-landslide/35369366. |
| March 2021 | Hail | Aptos | - | Image on social media shows small hail in Aptos. |
Maps showing this location
11 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.
- 1912 USGS Capitola quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1914 USGS Capitola quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
- 1940 USGS Capitola quadrangle1:62500
- 1948 USGS Santa Cruz quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Soquel quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Santa Cruz quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Santa Cruz quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Santa Cruz quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Santa Cruz quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Monterey quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Monterey quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Valencia Hall | 2.3 miles | 1984 |
 | Hihn Building | 2.8 miles | 1973 |
 | Venetian Court Apartments | 2.9 miles | 1987 |
| Old Riverview Historic District | 3.0 miles | 1988 | |
 | Rispin Mansion | 3.1 miles | 1991 |
| Six Sisters-Lawn Way Historic District | 3.4 miles | 1987 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 92000259 in Record Group 79. |
| Santa Cruz County | All 42 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.