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United States National Bank, San Diego, CA: failed October 18, 1973

United States National Bank in San Diego, California, failed on October 18, 1973. It held $1.27 billion in assets and $932 million in deposits at its last report. By assets it was the largest of 6 banks closed or assisted in 1973.

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The FDIC's record

Closed
October 18, 1973
Type
Failure
How it was resolved
Purchase and assumption: another bank took over the deposits
Total assets
$1,265,868,000
Total deposits
$931,954,000
Charter
National bank (supervised by the OCC)
Insurance fund
FDIC
FDIC certificate
3506

The FDIC record

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Read from the FDIC's failures data (BankFind), last updated 2026-10-23. Assets and deposits are as of the last report before failure; the estimated cost is the FDIC's latest estimate of the loss to its insurance fund and changes as the receivership winds down. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0.