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Photograph of Ellis Bishop House
Photograph by JERRYE & ROY KLOTZ, M.D, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Ellis Bishop House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.

From the record

One of 148 National Register listings published here for San Diego County · listed in 1999 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • Listed as. Bishop, Ellis, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 4802 El Arco Iris, Rancho Santa Fe, 92067
  • When was it listed? January 1999
  • Category. building
  • Census division. San Diego
  • Architect. Sylvanus Boardman Marston
  • National Register reference number. 98001552 - 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

1893 to 1996

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 103 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Ellis Bishop House, surveyed 1996
Topographic sheet covering Ellis Bishop House, surveyed 1893

Fires near this property

102 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 102 fires within 5 miles of Ellis Bishop House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,712 acres in total. None 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/undetermined56
Equipment and vehicle use26
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony4
Debris and open burning2
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
3 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresSan Diego UnitHORIZON
27 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
26 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Diego UnitHERRMANN
24 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresSan Diego UnitBERNARDO
23 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Diego UnitPALMA
2 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresSan Diego UnitLA PALMA
19 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSan Diego UnitLINDO
15 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Diego UnitLEWIS

Every fire recorded in San Diego County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Ellis Bishop House: 10 past producers, 6 producers, 2 prospects, 2 occurrences. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, Talc-Soapstone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Harris DepositAluminumProducer
Moonlight Beach DepositGemstoneOccurrence
Carmean QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Clifton MineGoldProspect
Greenstone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Harris DepositTalc-Soapstone, GoldPast Producer
Carmean QuarryStoneProducer
Greenstone QuarryStoneProducer
Pioneer DepositTalc-SoapstonePast Producer
Pioneer MineTalc-SoapstoneProducerPyrophyllite

Every working recorded in San Diego County

Storms near this property

3 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rancho Santa Fe, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2019 and 2026: 1 lightning, 1 debris flow, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 2019LightningRancho Santa Fe$2,000Broadcast media reported that lightning struck a fence and caused damage to it. 40 cloud-to-ground lightning strikes were observed during this event.
February 2026Thunderstorm WindRancho Santa Fe-Member of the public reports medium-sized tree snapped in half and landed on their car. Picture provided via social media with wind estimates near 30-40 mph.
January 2023Debris FlowRancho Santa Fe-CalTrans report of a mudslide leading to rocks and dirt blocking eastbound lanes on Via de Santa Fe near Rancho Santa Fe.

Every storm recorded in San Diego County

Maps showing this location

16 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Lilian Jenette Rice House1.6 miles1991
Juan Maria Osuna Adobe1.7 miles2017
Rancho Santa Fe Land and Improvement Company Office1.8 miles1991
Reginald M. and Constance Clotfelter Row House1.8 miles1991
Pearl Baker Row House1.9 miles1993
Claude and Florence Terwilliger House2.4 miles1991

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 98001552 in Record Group 79.
San Diego CountyAll 148 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.
  • 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.