Portal of the Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation and Museum
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. 20 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1894.
From the record
“Portal of the Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation, also known as Valhalla Memorial Rotunda and The Rotunda, is a 72-foot-tall (22 m) shrine to aviation located at the former entrance to Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery in North Hollywood and Burbank, California. The shrine, which has been called Arlington of the Air and Westminster Abbey of Reverence for the Founders of the Air Age, was entered into the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.”
Wikipedia article Portal of the Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 616 National Register listings published here for Los Angeles County · listed in 1998 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.98000246- 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.
18941979
Fires near this property
107 since 2000
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 107 fires within 5 miles of Portal of the Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation and Museum
between 2000 and 2020, burning about 1,416 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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
62
Equipment and vehicle use
22
Smoking
10
Arson/incendiarism
5
Misuse of fire by a minor
3
Natural
2
Debris and open burning
1
Fireworks
1
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
6 September 2011
Equipment and vehicle use
under an acre
Angeles National Forest
SEDAN
5 September 2011
Misuse of fire by a minor
10 acres
Los Angeles County Fire Department
not named
30 September 2007
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
3 September 2005
Fireworks
18 acres
Angeles National Forest
CABRINI
3 September 2004
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Angeles National Forest
MALIBU
29 September 2005
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1,012 acres
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
25 September 2011
Natural
under an acre
Inyo National Forest
RED ROCK
21 September 2018
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
27 workings within 5 miles of Portal of the Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation and Museum: 23 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 producer, 1 prospect.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gold, Copper. 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
North Hollywood, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2006 and 2025: 4 flash 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.
Strong thunderstorms produced heavy rain and flash flooding in the city of Los Angeles. At the intersection of Highway 101 and Campo de Cahuenga, significant road flooding was reported.
Heavy rain produced flash flooding in the North Hollywood area. California Highway Patrol reported the car pool lane of SR-170 was closed at Riverside Drive due to flooding.
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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