Bush, California

The same ground, surveyed 43 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1942 1985

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.

• 1942 USGS Amboy quadrangle1:250000
• 1943 USGS Amboy quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS Needles quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Dale Lake quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1956 USGS Needles quadrangle1:250000, 7 printings
• 1981 USGS Needles quadrangle1:250000
• 1985 USGS Dale Lake quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1985 USGS Sheep Hole Mountains quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Bush: 8 prospects, 2 occurrences, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Salt, Sodium, Uranium. 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 Bush in 16 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 14 flash flood, 1 flood, 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 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 1656445. 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.

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.