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Del Valle, California

39 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Newhall census division. It lies in ZIP code area 91384. It lies near San Martinez Chiquito Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Val Verde quadrangle. It stands 928 feet above sea level.

Del Valle within Los Angeles County

Then and now

1903 to 1995

The same ground, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Del Valle, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Del Valle, surveyed 1903

Compare 1903 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 39 printed sheets

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.

Fires near this place

202 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 202 fires within 5 miles of Del Valle between 1992 and 2020, burning about 129,253 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 28 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.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined116
Equipment and vehicle use31
Arson/incendiarism28
Smoking7
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Fireworks4
Debris and open burning2
Firearms and explosives use1
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2011Debris and open burning20 acresLos Angeles County Fire Departmentnot named
4 September 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAngeles National ForestROMERO
24 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictUNNAMED FIRE 1149
23 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictUNNAMED FIRE 1153
23 September 2003Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresCalifornia Desert DistrictUNNAMED FIRE 1170
23 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictUNNAMED FIRE 1154
22 September 2003Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresCalifornia Desert DistrictUNNAMED FIRE 1177
21 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined22 acresAngeles National ForestBURLWOOD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Los Angeles County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Del Valle: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fullers Earth. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
OvermanFullers EarthOccurrence

Every working recorded in Los Angeles County

Nearest settlements

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

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Val Verde1.8 miles39
Valencia3.0 miles37
Castaic Junction3.0 miles37
Oberg (historical)3.5 miles38
Mentryville (historical)3.7 miles35
Pico3.7 miles35
Ninetynine Oaks4.4 miles37
Sulphur Springs4.7 miles37

Elsewhere

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.

Wikipedia article on Del ValleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5253010The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1660536. 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.