Tulare Union High School Auditorium and Administration Building
Built in 1890. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1925.
From the record
“Tulare Union High School is a public school for secondary education in Tulare, Tulare County, California, United States. This high school is part of the Tulare Joint Union High School District, along with Tulare Western High School and Mission Oak High School, led by Superintendent Tony Rodriguez.”
Wikipedia article Tulare Union High School, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 35 National Register listings published here for Tulare County · listed in 1999 · category: Building · built in 1890.
National Register reference number.99001566- 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
292 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 292 fires within 5 miles of Tulare Union High School Auditorium and Administration Building
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,499 acres in total. None started naturally. 48 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
162
Arson/incendiarism
48
Equipment and vehicle use
35
Smoking
18
Misuse of fire by a minor
14
Debris and open burning
10
Railroad operations and maintenance
4
Recreation and ceremony
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 2011
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Tulare Unit
not named
7 September 2007
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
6 September 2009
Arson/incendiarism
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
6 September 2007
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
6 September 1994
Arson/incendiarism
under an acre
Tulare Unit
DEAN
29 September 1996
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
2.0 acres
Tulare Unit
SFRR #11
26 September 2009
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
1 working within 5 miles of Tulare Union High School Auditorium and Administration Building: 1 past producer.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Tulare, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 6 flood, 5 heavy rain, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 lightning.
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.
Heavy rain caused widespread urban and poor drainage flooding on the morning of the 29th across much of the San Joaquin Valley. Especially hard hit were the metro areas of Fresno, Visalia, and Bakersfield, and the adjacent foothills.
There were several reports of trees downed in the city of Tulare. There were also reports of trees and power lines downed in the town of Lindsay. A tree fell on a family's automobile between Visalia and Tulare.
Thunderstorm wind (estimated at more than 35Kts) toppled trees in Tulare causing power problems for 15,000 power customers in the South San Joaquin Valley. One tree fell on a home in southeast Tulare. Total rainfall in the Tulare area with the rain/wind storm was 1.36".
Roof damage to a large, rural warehouse. No other damage reported in the agricultural area. 1/2 to 3/4 of 16,000 sq.ft. structure, including two evaporative coolers, were damaged by the gust.
Through county sheriff, a report was relayed of wind damage to trees that was observed in Waukena associated with severe thunderstorm presence in rural southwestern Tulare County.
Widespread rainfall amounts of 1 to 2 inches across the San Joaquin Valley portion of Tulare county with up to 2.6 inches in the foothills. Nuisance roadway flooding reported near the city of Tulare.
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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