Adobe Corner, California

The same ground, surveyed 95 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1902 1997

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 3 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Mortimer Green Gables-Fleischhacker Country Houselisted 1986 · 0.5 miles away
• Woodside Storelisted 1985 · 0.7 miles away
• Independence Halllisted 1978 · 0.4 miles away

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

• 1902 USGS Santa Cruz quadrangle1:125000, 9 printings
• 1940 USGS Halfmoon Bay quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1943 USGS Halfmoon Bay quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
• 1948 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Woodside quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1955 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1957 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Half Moon Bay quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Woodside quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1964 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
• 1971 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
• 1982 USGS Palo Alto quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1985 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
• 1991 USGS Woodside quadrangle1:24000
• 1997 USGS Woodside quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 210 fires within 5 miles of Adobe Corner between 1992 and 2020, burning about 132 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 13 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Woodside
• Woodside Glens
• Farm Hills
• Redwood Park
• Grabtown
• Redwood Junction

Every fire recorded in San Mateo County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Adobe Corner: 11 producers, 8 past producers, 4 unknowns. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Mercury, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in San Mateo County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1657889. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.