Bitterwater, California

The same ground, surveyed 61 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1921 1982

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.

• 1921 USGS Metz quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1940 USGS Metz quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Metz quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1948 USGS Santa Cruz quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1955 USGS Santa Cruz quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1957 USGS Santa Cruz quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Santa Cruz quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1965 USGS Santa Cruz quadrangle1:250000
• 1969 USGS Topo Valley quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1974 USGS Monterey quadrangle1:250000
• 1982 USGS Point Sur quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Bitterwater between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,474 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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.

Every fire recorded in San Benito County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Bitterwater: 2 producers, 2 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, Manganese. 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 Benito County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bitterwater in 2 storm reports in 2021: 2 flood. 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 Benito 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 1660339. 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.