Built in 1915. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1930.
From the record
“Wasco Union High School (WUHS) is a public American senior high school in Wasco, California. The school is part of the Wasco Union High School District and takes in incoming freshmen from the Wasco Union School District, Maple School District, Lost Hills Union School District, Semitropic School District, St.”
Wikipedia article Wasco Union High School, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 23 National Register listings published here for Kern County · listed in 1997 · category: Building · built in 1915.
National Register reference number.97001188- 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
25 since 1994
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Wasco Union High School Auditorium
between 1994 and 2020, burning about 697 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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
16
Equipment and vehicle use
2
Misuse of fire by a minor
2
Arson/incendiarism
2
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
Debris and open burning
1
Natural
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
25 September 2008
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
9 August 2011
Debris and open burning
1.5 acres
Kern County Fire Department
not named
14 August 2020
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
91 acres
Kern County Fire Department
not named
11 August 1998
Natural
under an acre
Central California District
ESPONDA
8 July 2005
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
30 July 2006
Equipment and vehicle use
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
3 July 2006
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Wasco, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2019: 2 lightning, 1 funnel cloud, 1 flood.
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.
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.
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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