Cedar Avenue Complex

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1915.

From the record

One of 616 National Register listings published here for Los Angeles County · listed in 1993 · category: District.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 4 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 44843 (44855), 44845 and 44851 Cedar Ave., 606 Lancaster Blvd., and Old Jail (no address), Lancaster, 93534
When was it listed? September 1993
Category. district
Census division. North Antelope Valley
National Register reference number. 93001017 - 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

754 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 754 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Avenue Complex between 2005 and 2020, burning about 598 acres in total. None started naturally. 124 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	470
Arson/incendiarism	124
Misuse of fire by a minor	68
Smoking	57
Equipment and vehicle use	17
Debris and open burning	17
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
8 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
8 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
7 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Los Angeles County Fire Department	not named
7 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
6 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Los Angeles County Fire Department	not named
6 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
6 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
6 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named

Every fire recorded in Los Angeles County

Storms near this property

9 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lancaster, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2013: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 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
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	-	California Highway Patrol reported downed power lines along 4th Street East and East Avenue L4 due to thunderstorm winds. Wind gusts were estimated to be around 60 MPH.
September 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	-	A trained spotter in the community of Lancaster reported a severe thunderstorm with winds in excess of 60 MPH. The thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and 5-inch diameter branches along the Antelope Valley Freeway between Avenue N and 50th Street East.
July 2006	Flash Flood	Lancaster	-	California Highway Patrol reported flash flooding in the community of Lancaster from Avenue K to the Kern County border.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	-	A severe thunderstorm produced damaging winds in the community of Lancaster. Local law enforcement reported trees blown down at the intersection of Avenue J and 20th street due to thunderstorm winds.
May 1999	Flash Flood	Lancaster	-	A strong thunderstorm produced flash flooding across eastern sections of the Antelope Valley. California Highway Patrol reported flooding around the intersection of Highway 138 and 165th Street.
August 1998	Flood	Lancaster	-	Strong thunderstorms produced heavy rain and street flooding across the Antelope Valley. Several spotters in the city of Lancaster reported widespread street flooding.
August 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	-	Strong thunderstorms winds knocked down 10 power poles in the city of Lancaster.
July 2003	Hail	Lancaster	-	no account filed
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Los Angeles County

Maps showing this location

13 surveys

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.

1915 USGS Elizabeth Lake quadrangle1:125000
1915 USGS Elizabeth Lake quadrangle1:96000
1917 USGS Elizabeth Lake quadrangle1:125000 - 6 printings
1930 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:24000
1933 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1949 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1955 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Lancaster West quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1959 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1966 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1981 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 93001017 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.
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.