A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1905.
From the record
“Mission Santa Inés was a Spanish mission in present-day Solvang, California, United States, and named after St. Founded on September 17, 1804, by Father Estévan Tapís of the Franciscan order, the mission site was chosen as a midway point between Mission Santa Barbara and Mission La Purísima Concepción, and was designed to relieve overcrowding at those two missions and to serve the Indians living north of the Coast Range.”
Wikipedia article Mission Santa Inés, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 38 National Register listings published here for Santa Barbara County · listed in 1999 · category: Building · a National Historic Landmark.
National Register reference number. 99000630 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1905 to 1995
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19051995
Fires near this property
80 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Mission Santa Ines, Church
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 463 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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
56
Equipment and vehicle use
12
Debris and open burning
5
Arson/incendiarism
3
Power generation/transmission/distribution
2
Natural
1
Smoking
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 2006
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
155 acres
Santa Barbara County Fire Department
HIGHWAY
30 September 2019
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
4.0 acres
Santa Barbara County Fire Department
not named
3 September 2020
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
14 acres
Santa Barbara County Fire Department
not named
27 September 2009
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Santa Barbara County Fire Department
not named
26 September 2018
Equipment and vehicle use
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
25 September 2006
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1.0 acres
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
20 September 2013
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Santa Barbara County Fire Department
not named
14 September 2005
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
11 workings within 5 miles of Mission Santa Ines, Church: 7 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 producer, 1 prospect.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Chromium, Limestone, General, Limestone, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
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.
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