Barber, California

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1891 1980

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 7 records

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

• A. H. Chapman Houselisted 1982 · 0.8 miles away
• Southern Pacific Depotlisted 1987 · 0.8 miles away
• Stansbury Houselisted 1975 · 0.9 miles away
• South of Campus Neighborhoodlisted 1991 · 0.9 miles away
• Allen-Sommer-Gage Houselisted 1977 · 0.9 miles away
• US Post Office-Chico Midtown Stationlisted 1985 · 0.9 miles away
• Silberstein Park Buildinglisted 1983 · 0.9 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.

• 1891 USGS Chico quadrangle1:125000
• 1893 USGS Chico quadrangle1:125000
• 1895 USGS Chico quadrangle1:125000, 8 printings
• 1912 USGS Durham quadrangle1:31680
• 1948 USGS Chico quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
• 1949 USGS Chico quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1950 USGS Chico quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Chico quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1960 USGS Chico quadrangle1:250000
• 1980 USGS Chico quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 542 fires within 5 miles of Barber between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,190 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 31 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:

• Chico
• Chapmantown
• Michopdo (historical)
• Durham
• Eskini (historical)
• Roble

Every fire recorded in Butte County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Barber: 4 producers, 3 unknowns, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Platinum, PGE. 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 Butte 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 1655812. 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.