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One of 616 National Register listings published here for Los Angeles County · listed in 1992 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Charles E. Straight House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. 19 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1894.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Straight, Charles E., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 4333 Emerald Ave., La Verne, 91750
- When was it listed? July 1992
- Category. building
- Census division. East San Gabriel Valley
- Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
- National Register reference number. 92000833 - 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
1894 to 1982The ground this property stands on, surveyed 88 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
490 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 490 fires within 5 miles of Charles E. Straight House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,529 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 76 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 | 244 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 76 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 40 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 39 |
| Smoking | 38 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 21 |
| Debris and open burning | 13 |
| Fireworks | 10 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Other causes | 2 |
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 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 7 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Angeles National Forest | ROCKY |
| 6 September 1995 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Angeles National Forest | POWER |
| 5 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Los Angeles County Fire Department | not named |
| 5 September 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 5 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 5 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Angeles National Forest | STATION |
| 4 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Los Angeles County Fire Department | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Charles E. Straight House: 7 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lordsburg Deposit | Stone | Producer | ||
| Lordsburg Deposit | Stone, Dimension | Past Producer | ||
| San Dimas Barite Deposit | Barium-Barite | Past Producer | ||
| San Dimas Rock Co. | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Upland South Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Claremont Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Pomona Brick Co | Clay | Prospect | Sedimentary | |
| Pomona Brick Co. | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Location | Clay | Unknown | ||
| Upland Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
2 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names La Verne, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1997 and 1998: 1 dust devil, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | La Verne | - | Strong thunderstorm winds, estimated at 60 mph, knocked down several trees with diameters of one foot or greater. |
| April 1997 | Dust Devil | La Verne | - | A dust devil developed over a mobile home park in La Verne. Two mobile homes had their roofs blown off by the dust devil. |
Maps showing this location
19 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.
- 1894 USGS Pomona quadrangle1:62500
- 1897 USGS Pomona quadrangle1:62500
- 1898 USGS Pomona quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1901 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
- 1904 USGS Pomona quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
- 1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1928 USGS La Verne quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1933 USGS La Verne and Evey Canyon quadrangle1:24000
- 1940 USGS La Verne quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
- 1940 USGS La Verne quadrangle1:20000
- 1953 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1954 USGS San Dimas quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1956 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS San Dimas quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
- 1982 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:100000
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Pitzer House | 1.8 miles | 1986 |
 | San Dimas Hotel | 2.3 miles | 1972 |
 | Ygnacio Palomares Adobe | 2.3 miles | 1971 |
| DeWenter Mansion, Guest House and Grounds | 2.5 miles | 1992 | |
 | Peter Drucker House | 2.5 miles | 2017 |
 | Barbara Greenwood Kindergarten | 3.0 miles | 1978 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 92000833 in Record Group 79. |
| Los Angeles County | All 616 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.