Montebello Woman's Club

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1894.

From the record

One of 616 National Register listings published here for Los Angeles County · listed in 1995 · category: Building.

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 201 S. Park Ave., Montebello, 90640
When was it listed? March 1995
Category. building
Census division. Southwest San Gabriel Valley
National Register reference number. 95000266 - 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 1979

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Montebello Woman's Club, surveyed 1979

Topographic sheet covering Montebello Woman's Club, surveyed 1894

Fires near this property

535 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 535 fires within 5 miles of Montebello Woman's Club between 1992 and 2020, burning about 438 acres in total. None started naturally. 51 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	357
Arson/incendiarism	51
Smoking	45
Misuse of fire by a minor	36
Equipment and vehicle use	35
Debris and open burning	9
Recreation and ceremony	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
8 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
8 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
8 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
7 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.5 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
7 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
6 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
6 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named

Every fire recorded in Los Angeles County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Montebello Woman's Club: 12 past producers, 4 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
L. A. Decomposed Granite Co.	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
La Decomposed Granite Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Prospect	Sedimentary
Mccaslin Materials Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Mccaslin Materials Co. Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Monterey Park Granite Co, Inc	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Monterey Park Granite Co.	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Atlas Sewer Pipe Co	Clay	Prospect	Sedimentary
Atlas Sewer Pipe Co. Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Gladding Mcbean & Co. - Pico Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Gladding Mcbean - Pico Pit	Clay	Prospect	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Los Angeles County

Maps showing this location

16 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.

1894 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:62500
1896 USGS Pasadena quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1900 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1900 USGS Pasadena quadrangle1:62500 - 10 printings
1901 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1924 USGS Alhambra quadrangle1:24000
1926 USGS Alhambra quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1949 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1953 USGS El Monte quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1955 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1966 USGS El Monte quadrangle1:24000 - 8 printings
1966 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1979 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:100000

Listed places nearby

6 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Pio Pico Casa	1.8 miles	1973
Golden Gate Theater	3.1 miles	1982
Casa de Parley Johnson	4.0 miles	1986
National Chicano Moratorium March August 29, 1970	4.0 miles	2020
National Bank of Whittier Building	4.5 miles	1982
Hoover Hotel	4.5 miles	2002

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 95000266 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.