Photograph of Tecate Peak — Photograph by UncleMunkle, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Kuchamaa

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“Tecate Peak is a mountain in San Diego County, California. It is 4 miles (6.4 km) west of the twin towns of Tecate, California, and Tecate, Baja California, and it is about mile (800 m) north of the Mexico-United States border.”
Wikipedia article Tecate Peak, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 148 National Register listings published here for San Diego County · listed in 1992 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. SE of San Diego at the US--Mexico border, Tecate, 91917
When was it listed? October 1992
Category. district
Census division. Mountain Empire
National Register reference number. 92001268 - 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

1903 to 1904

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 1 year apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Kuchamaa, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheet covering Kuchamaa, surveyed 1903

Fires near this property

497 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 497 fires within 5 miles of Kuchamaa between 1992 and 2020, burning about 68,367 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 108 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	178
Recreation and ceremony	119
Arson/incendiarism	108
Equipment and vehicle use	39
Misuse of fire by a minor	24
Debris and open burning	16
Firearms and explosives use	6
Natural	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Fireworks	1
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 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12 acres	California Desert District	POTRERO
7 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22 acres	California Desert District	BORDER 9
5 September 1992	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	San Diego Unit	TECATE#29
5 September 1992	Misuse of fire by a minor	2.0 acres	California Desert District	TECATE
4 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	San Diego Unit	TECATE MISSION TECATE
30 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	San Diego Unit	TECATE RD POTRERO 110
3 September 2006	Natural	1.0 acres	California Desert District	BARRETT
29 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	PLASKON LN POTRERO 2

Every fire recorded in San Diego County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Kuchamaa: 8 occurrences, 2 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Molybdenum, Silica, Manganese. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Bird Rock Deposit	REE	Prospect
Donohoe Mine	Gold, Copper, Lead, Molybdenum, Silver, Tungsten, Zinc	Past Producer
Dulzura Deposit	Stone, Dimension	Occurrence
Engineer's Springs	Manganese	Occurrence
Pilz Deposit	Feldspar, Silica	Prospect
Potrero	Silica	Occurrence
Mayars Ranch Deposit	Molybdenum	Occurrence
Mayers Ranch, Scheckler	Molybdenum	Occurrence	Molybdenite
Meyers Ranch	Molybdenum	Occurrence	Vein
Donohoe Mine	Gold	Producer

Every working recorded in San Diego County

Storms near this property

1 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tecate, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1999: 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
July 1999	Hail	Tecate	-	Hail 1.75 inch diameter, heavy rain, and wind gusts to 40 mph were observed.

Every storm recorded in San Diego County

Maps showing this location

11 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1903 USGS Cuyamaca quadrangle1:125000 - 6 printings
1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 2 quadrangle1:250000 - 5 printings
1942 USGS Potrero quadrangle1:48000
1944 USGS Potrero quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1950 USGS San Diego quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS San Diego quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS San Diego quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS San Diego quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1960 USGS Potrero quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1960 USGS Tecate quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1979 USGS El Cajon quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

1 within 8 miles

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
	US Inspection Station-Tecate	3.9 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 92001268 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.