Carthay Circle, California

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1894 1979

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 3 records

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

• Fox Wilshire Theatrelisted 2012 · 0.6 miles away
• Carthay Neighborhoods Historic Districtlisted 2022 · 0.2 miles away
• Wilshire Vista West Historic Districtlisted 2020 · 0.5 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.

• 1894 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:62500
• 1896 USGS Santa Monica quadrangle1:62500
• 1898 USGS Santa Monica quadrangle1:62500
• 1900 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1901 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1902 USGS Santa Monica quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1920 USGS Santa Monica quadrangle1:62500
• 1921 USGS Santa Monica quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1924 USGS Hollywood quadrangle1:24000
• 1926 USGS Hollywood quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1949 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1953 USGS Hollywood quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1955 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1966 USGS Hollywood quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1966 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000
• 1975 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1979 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Carthay Circle between 1995 and 2020, burning about 111 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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:

• Little Ethiopia
• Parklabrea
• South Carthay
• Carthay Square
• Crescent
• Picfair Village

Every fire recorded in Los Angeles County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Carthay Circle: 1 unknown, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Gold. 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 Los Angeles 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 1744809. 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.