Clifton, California

The same ground, surveyed 100 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1896 1996

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 2 records

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

• Woman's Club of Redondo Beachlisted 1984 · 0.7 miles away
• Redondo Beach Public Librarylisted 1981 · 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.

• 1896 USGS Redondo quadrangle1:62500, 9 printings
• 1901 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1924 USGS Torrance quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1934 USGS Torrance quadrangle1:20000
• 1934 USGS Torrance quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1943 USGS San Pedro quadrangle1:125000
• 1944 USGS Redondo quadrangle1:62500
• 1949 USGS Long Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1951 USGS Redondo Beach quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1957 USGS Long Beach quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1958 USGS Long Beach quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Long Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1963 USGS Redondo Beach quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1981 USGS Long Beach quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
• 1996 USGS Redondo Beach quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 113 fires within 5 miles of Clifton between 2005 and 2020, burning about 338 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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:

• Hollywood Riviera
• Palos Verdes Estates
• Ironsides
• Palos Verdes Peninsula
• Rancho Palos Verdes
• Rolling Hills Estates

Every fire recorded in Los Angeles County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Clifton: 15 past producers, 2 occurrences, 2 producers, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Diatomite, Titanium, Metal. 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 240702. 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.