Current NHLs edit

One site, the Yuma Crossing one, is shared with Arizona and is listed by the National Park Service in that state. Lower Klamath is shared with Oregon but credited to California.

[1] Landmark name
[2]
Image Date of designation[2] Location[2] County[2] Description[3]
11 Hubert H. Bancroft Ranch House   29 December 1962 Spring Valley
32°44′05″N 116°59′18″W / 32.734641849°N 116.988259712°W / 32.734641849; -116.988259712 (Hubert H. Bancroft Ranch House)
San Diego Adobe home of historian and ethnologist Hubert Howe Bancroft, publisher of many Pacific Coast histories and books on Native American culture.
30 Estudillo House   15 April 1970 San Diego
32°45′15″N 117°11′49″W / 32.754196°N 117.197075°W / 32.754196; -117.197075 (Estudillo House)
San Diego Adobe house; constructed in 1827; was considered one of the finest houses in Mexican California
40 Guajome Ranch House   15 April 1970 Vista
33°14′00″N 117°15′14″W / 33.233375°N 117.253969°W / 33.233375; -117.253969 (Guajome Ranch House)
San Diego Spanish Colonial hacienda with two courtyards
55 Las Flores Adobe   24 November 1968 Camp Pendleton
33°18′00″N 117°27′40″W / 33.299949°N 117.461067°W / 33.299949; -117.461067 (Las Flores Adobe)
San Diego An Estancia halfway between two missions, it is now part of a Boy Scout camp located inside Camp Pendleton just off of Interstate 5.
70 Mission Beach Roller Coaster   27 February 1987 San Diego
32°46′12″N 117°15′00″W / 32.7699345629°N 117.250059665°W / 32.7699345629; -117.250059665 (Mission Beach Roller Coaster)
San Diego The only remaining wooden coaster on the West coast, it was built in 1925 by noted coaster builders Prior and Church. It was saved from destruction in 1987, restored, and is still operating today.
80 Oak Grove Butterfield Stage Station   5 November 1961 Warner Springs
33°23′23″N 116°47′39″W / 33.389728°N 116.794097°W / 33.389728; -116.794097 (Oak Grove Butterfield Stage Station)
San Diego The only surviving station house on the Butterfield Overland Mail stagecoach line. The nearby location of Warner's Ranch was also part of the line.
82 Old Mission Dam image pending 21 May 1963 San Diego
32°50′17″N 117°02′32″W / 32.8381927311°N 117.042314031°W / 32.8381927311; -117.042314031 (Old Mission Dam)
San Diego The first major irrigation project on the Pacific coast, this dam supplied water for milling and irrigation at the Mission San Diego de Alcalá, 5 miles away.
84 Old Scripps Building   20 May 1982 La Jolla
32°51′52″N 117°15′09″W / 32.864446°N 117.252395°W / 32.864446; -117.252395 (Old Scripps Building)
San Diego The first building of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, which is the oldest oceanographic institute in the United States. It formed the starting point of what has become the University of California, San Diego.
103 San Diego Mission Church   15 April 1970 San Diego
32°46′58″N 117°06′23″W / 32.7827680173°N 117.106253353°W / 32.7827680173; -117.106253353 (San Diego Mission Church)
San Diego This was the first Spanish Mission in Alta California and the start of El Camino Real. Originally located in the Presidio of San Diego, it later moved a few miles away. The nearby Old Mission Dam, also a NHL, provided water for milling and farming.
104 San Diego Presidio   9 October 1960 San Diego
32°45′31″N 117°11′36″W / 32.758611°N 117.193333°W / 32.758611; -117.193333 (San Diego Presidio)
San Diego The first fortified presidio, it along with the first mission, San Diego Mission Church, paved the way for Spanish colonization of California. No structures remain, but the site is now located in Presidio Park.
110 San Luis Rey Mission Church   15 April 1970 Oceanside
33°22′03″N 117°13′06″W / 33.3675°N 117.218333°W / 33.3675; -117.218333 (San Luis Rey Mission Church District)
San Diego California's most pristine Spanish Mission Complex, this is the third church at this site.
131 Warner's Ranch image pending 20 January 1961 Warner Springs
33°14′19″N 116°39′03″W / 33.238611°N 116.650833°W / 33.238611; -116.650833 (Warner's Ranch)
San Diego The only trading post between New Mexico and Los Angeles, this ranch developed into a stop on the Butterfield Overland Mail stagecoach line along with nearby Oak Grove. Now a hot springs resort.
  1. ^ Numbers represent an ordering by significant words. Various colorings, defined here, differentiate the National Monuments, National Historic Sites, National Historic Landmark Districts and other higher designations from other NHL buildings, structures, sites or objects.
  2. ^ a b c d National Park Service (November 2007), National Historic Landmarks Survey: List of National Historic Landmarks by State (PDF), retrieved 2007-11-09{{citation}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link). Note that while this source prominently states a count of 135 National Historic Landmarks in California (p. 9), it actually lists 137 landmarks in that state. Of those 137 listings, 2 have been moved out of California, 1 reflects a withdrawn designation, and 1 is a site primarily attached to another state. It also omits the USCGC Fir which was never relocated to New York State as once intended. Thus the actual count reflected in this article is 134.
  3. ^ National Park Service. "National Historic Landmark Program: NHL Database". retrieved on various dates, and other sources cited in the articles on each of the sites.