Alta Loma, California

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1897 1982

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 1 record

• Maloof Guesthouselisted 2010

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.

• 1897 USGS Cucamonga quadrangle1:62500
• 1900 USGS Cucamonga quadrangle1:62500
• 1901 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1903 USGS Cucamonga quadrangle1:62500, 11 printings
• 1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1944 USGS Cucamonga quadrangle1:62500
• 1953 USGS Guasti quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1953 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1954 USGS Ontario quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
• 1956 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Guasti quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1966 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
• 1982 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 205 fires within 5 miles of Alta Loma between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,924 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 28 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:

• Rancho Cucamonga
• Las Uvas (historical)
• Grapeland
• Los Olivos
• North Ontario
• San Antonio Heights

Every fire recorded in San Bernardino County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Alta Loma: 4 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Tungsten. 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 Bernardino County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alta Loma in 4 storm reports between 2003 and 2025: 1 wildfire, 1 funnel cloud, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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 San Bernardino 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 1660249. 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.