Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1915.
From the record
“The Errea House, a historic house located at 311 S. Green St. in Tehachapi, California, is the house is the only surviving building from the settlement of Tehichipa, the first town in the Tehachapi area.”
Wikipedia article Errea House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 23 National Register listings published here for Kern County · listed in 1997 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.97000809- 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
1915 to 1992
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19151992
Fires near this property
156 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 156 fires within 5 miles of Errea House
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,230 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 17 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
84
Equipment and vehicle use
21
Misuse of fire by a minor
18
Arson/incendiarism
17
Debris and open burning
5
Natural
5
Smoking
3
Recreation and ceremony
2
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
9 September 2020
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
35 acres
Kern County Fire Department
not named
9 September 2020
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
35 acres
Kern County Fire Department
VISTA
9 September 2012
Misuse of fire by a minor
1.0 acres
Kern County Fire Department
not named
6 September 2019
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Kern County Fire Department
not named
5 September 2017
Natural
5.0 acres
Central California District
WATER
4 September 2019
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
4.1 acres
Kern County Fire Department
not named
4 September 2011
Equipment and vehicle use
3,128 acres
California Desert District
CANYON
28 September 2006
Arson/incendiarism
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
19 workings within 5 miles of Errea House: 13 past producers, 4 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect.
4 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Tungsten, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Tehachapi, the town this property stands in, in 25 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 6 heavy rain, 5 flood, 4 flash flood, 3 wildfire.
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.
Thunderstorm wind, aided by terrain channeling up a mountain side, lifted a patio deck subsequently pulling the roof off from a house southwest of Stallion Springs. The damage was very localized, but totally demolishing one house. Small hail occurred with the thunderstorm passage as reported by a couple of witnesses.
Thunderstorm activity again occurred for many of the desert and mountain areas of Interior Central California. With frequent lightning activity occurring, a lightning strike was reported to have caused a car fire in the Tehachapi area of the Kern County Mountains. There were no injuries reported.
Highline Road southwest of Tehachapi in the Kern County Mountains was closed due to flooding over the roadway in the late afternoon/early evening of the 31st.
Over two inches of rain fell over Tehachapi during the afternoon of the 12th. This resulted in a mud/debris flow near highway 58 and highway 202 in the center of Tehachapi, which closed the roadway for a couple of hours.
The Hillside Fire along Highway 58 and fought by Kern County Fire Department burned 1830 acres. Its cost and cause are unknown but there were no structures or lives lost.
The Mercury Fire was fought by the Kern County Fire Department and it burned 300 acres. Its cause was human and no costs are known. There were no structures or lives lost in the fire.
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.
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.
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.
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