East Petaluma, California

The same ground, surveyed 69 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1914 1983

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 8 records

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

• Petaluma Silk Milllisted 1986 · 0.3 miles away
• Ellis-Martin Houselisted 2006 · 0.4 miles away
• Petaluma Historic Commercial Districtlisted 1995 · 0.4 miles away
• Old Petaluma Opera Houselisted 1978 · 0.5 miles away
• Free Public Library of Petalumalisted 1988 · 0.6 miles away
• US Post Office-Petalumalisted 1985 · 0.6 miles away
• Philip Sweed Houselisted 1992 · 0.7 miles away
• Petaluma Woman's Clublisted 2024 · 0.7 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.

• 1914 USGS Petaluma quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
• 1942 USGS Petaluma quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
• 1949 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1953 USGS Petaluma quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1954 USGS Petaluma quadrangle1:24000
• 1954 USGS Petaluma quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1962 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
• 1964 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
• 1983 USGS Napa quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 318 fires within 5 miles of East Petaluma between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,750 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 16 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:

• Petaluma
• Haystack
• McNear
• Corona (historical)
• Crown
• Lakeville

Every fire recorded in Sonoma County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of East Petaluma: 12 producers, 5 past producers, 3 occurrences, 1 unknown. 12 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Graphite. 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 Sonoma 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 1702905. 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.