Alberhill, California

The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1901 1997

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.

• 1901 USGS Elsinore quadrangle1:125000, 8 printings
• 1901 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1942 USGS Lake Elsinore quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
• 1949 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS Alberhill quadrangle1:24000, 7 printings
• 1956 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1960 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1965 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
• 1974 USGS Alberhill quadrangle1:24000
• 1983 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:100000
• 1997 USGS Alberhill quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 859 fires within 5 miles of Alberhill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 24,782 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 72 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:

• Terra Cotta
• Camelot Hills
• Gavilan Hills
• North Elsinore
• Santa Rosa Ranch Estates
• Arcilla

Every fire recorded in Riverside County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 51 workings within 5 miles of Alberhill: 26 past producers, 9 prospects, 8 occurrences, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Kaolin. 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 Riverside County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alberhill in 4 storm reports between 2012 and 2019: 2 flash flood, 1 flood, 1 heavy rain. 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.

Every storm recorded in Riverside County

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

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1660239. 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.

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.