Arcade, California

The same ground, surveyed 103 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1891 1994

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.

• 1891 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:125000
• 1892 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
• 1893 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:125000
• 1902 USGS Fairoaks quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1911 USGS Brighton quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
• 1947 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1948 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000
• 1949 USGS Sacramento East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1954 USGS Fair Oaks quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1954 USGS Sacramento East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1957 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1967 USGS Sacramento East quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1992 USGS Sacramento East quadrangle1:24000
• 1994 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 485 fires within 5 miles of Arcade between 2005 and 2020, burning about 284 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 36 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:

• Town and Country Village
• Swanston
• Ben Ali
• Del Paso Heights
• Gardenland
• Hagginwood

Every fire recorded in Sacramento County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Arcade: 17 past producers, 7 producers, 2 prospects, 2 occurrences. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 Sacramento County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arcade in 20 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 17 flood, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 Sacramento 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 1666249. 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.