Hathaway Ranch Museum
Hathaway Ranch Museum is a museum in California, at a recorded elevation of 51 m. Mount Wilson stands 1,737 m to the north, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Little Lake Park, a park 0.2 miles away. Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110 passes 13 miles off.
The story
The Hathaway Ranch & Oil Museum in Santa Fe Springs, California is a museum of five generations of Hathaway family and Southern California history. The five-acre facility includes hundreds of artifacts and buildings showing the initial usage of the land in farming and ranching, as well as the major transition when oil was discovered in the area. The property includes a machine shop with multiple antique machine tools that are powered with flat belts from an overhead line shaft. This system, which allowed all the machinery to be powered by one steam engine, rather than individual electric motors on the machines, was common in machine shops a century ago. The shop is fully intact from when it was in use, and looks as though the machinist just stepped out for a moment. The property has a 1933 Spanish-Mediterranean-style ranch house on it, as well as another home, in which members of the Hathaway family lived. The home's architecture and contents represent a time capsule from that era. The numerous outbuildings are a reflection of the needs of a working ranch as well as the oil industry. The museum houses one of the largest collections of steam engines, antique farm machinery, vintage diesel engines, and oil field equipment in the region.
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Wikidata Q5681461, matched on coordinates and name (15 m apart).
What the record says
- Built
- 1931
- Height
- 11.1 m
- Elevation
- 50.5 m
How to reach it
- 12.8 mi off the Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110, National
Overlooks nearby
- Point Grandview · 13 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Little Lake Park: 0.2 mi
- Lake Center Athletic Park: 0.3 mi
- Heritage Springs Sculpture Garden: 0.5 mi
- Soaring Dreams Plaza: 0.6 mi
- Lakeview Recreation Area: 0.7 mi
- Founders Plaza: 0.5 mi
- A City Evolves: 1.4 mi
- Spring Star: 2.1 mi
- McDonald's Sign: 2.3 mi
- Bogey & Scratch: 2.4 mi
- Freedom Memorial: 1.5 mi
- Norwalk Square: 2.3 mi
- Veterans Memorial: 2.9 mi
- Valley View Farms Business Center Plaque: 3.6 mi
- Valley View Farms History Tour Marker: 3.6 mi
- Sproul Museum: 2.0 mi
- McDonald's Museum: 2.3 mi
- Hargitt House Museum: 2.7 mi
- Columbia Memorial Space Center: 3.3 mi
- Downey Art Museum: 3.5 mi
- Apollo Boilerplate 12: 3.2 mi
- Little India: 5.0 mi
- Citadel Outlets: 6.5 mi
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park - Cypress: 7.3 mi
- Pirates Dinner Adventure: 7.4 mi
- Upper Campus Community Garden: 4.2 mi
- Cerritos Sculpture Garden: 4.9 mi
- 5th Grade Garden: 5.3 mi
- Paramount Cortland Community Garden: 5.7 mi
- Garden of the Innocent: 5.8 mi
- Puente Hills Preserve: 4.5 mi
- Puente Hills Preserve: 5.3 mi
- Puente Hills Preserve: 5.3 mi
- Bosque del Rio Hondo Natural Area: 6.5 mi
- Puente Hills Preserve: 6.6 mi
- Workman Hill: 5.9 mi
- Whittier Hill: 5.9 mi
- West Coyote Hills: 6.4 mi
- Montebello Hills: 6.6 mi
- West Coyote Hills: 7.8 mi
- Group Picnic Area: 7.0 mi
- Hidden Valley: 9.3 mi
- Creekside: 9.4 mi
- Covered Picnic Area: 12.0 mi
- Mother's Beach: 12.5 mi
- Schweitzer Falls: 12.6 mi
- Frog Jump Falls: 12.7 mi
- Washout Falls: 12.7 mi
- Bear Claw Fall: 12.8 mi
- Mayberg Waterfall: 14.2 mi
- Mother's Beach: 12.5 mi
- Long Beach City Beach: 13.0 mi
- Bolsa Chica State Beach: 16.8 mi
- Bolsa Chica State Beach: 19.1 mi
- Redondo Beach State Park: 19.3 mi
- Carbon Canyon Mineral Springs: 17.3 mi
- McDermont Spring: 19.6 mi
- Big Cienega Spring: 21.6 mi
- Kuruvungna Springs: 23.0 mi
- Fern Springs: 23.5 mi
- San Pedro Escarpment: 20.9 mi
- Upper Switzer Falls Grotto: 22.7 mi
- Spa Palace: 13.7 mi
- Point Fermin Lighthouse: 20.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 19.9 miles of Hathaway Ranch Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Wilson | N 3° | 1,737 m | 19.9 mi |
| Mount Harvard | N 3° | 1,640 m | 19.2 mi |
| Rankin Peak | NNE 18° | 1,606 m | 19.8 mi |
| Mount Yale | N 3° | 1,451 m | 18.6 mi |
| Muir Peak | N 356° | 1,427 m | 19.4 mi |
| Clamshell Peak | NNE 14° | 1,338 m | 19.0 mi |
| West Fuji | N 355° | 1,121.969 m | 18.9 mi |
| Mount Bliss | NNE 23° | 1,121 m | 18.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:57 | 18:31 | 19:04 |
| June solstice | 05:42 | 19:30 | 20:07 |
| September equinox | 06:41 | 18:18 | 18:51 |
| December solstice | 06:55 | 16:10 | 16:48 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: year-round.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 58 | 59 | 61 | 64 | 67 | 71 | 75 | 77 | 75 | 69 | 62 | 57 |
| Precip in | 2.8 | 3.0 | 1.7 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 1.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Fullerton Muni AP, 7 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element way/455820823
Day trips start here
- Santa Fe Springs · 1 mi
- Norwalk · 2 mi
- Downey · 3 mi
- Gateway Cities · 3 mi
- Pico Rivera · 3 mi
- Bellflower · 4 mi
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