Cactus, California

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1903 1993

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.

• 1903 USGS Yuma quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1905 USGS Yuma quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
• 1942 USGS Yuma quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Cactus quadrangle1:24000
• 1953 USGS Ogilby quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1954 USGS El Centro quadrangle1:250000
• 1955 USGS El Centro quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS El Centro quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1961 USGS El Centro quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Cactus quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1963 USGS Ogilby quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1964 USGS El Centro quadrangle1:250000
• 1993 USGS Yuma quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Cactus between 1995 and 2009, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. None 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.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Ogilby
• Obregon

Every fire recorded in Imperial County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Cactus: 7 occurrences, 2 past producers, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Copper, 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 Imperial County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cactus in 4 storm reports between 2019 and 2023: 4 flash 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 Imperial County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1660405. 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.