East San Diego, California

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.

1904 1996

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.

• 1904 USGS San Diego quadrangle1:62500, 9 printings
• 1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 2 quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
• 1930 USGS San Diego quadrangle1:62500
• 1944 USGS National City quadrangle1:31680
• 1950 USGS San Diego quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS National City quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1954 USGS San Diego quadrangle1:250000
• 1955 USGS San Diego quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS San Diego quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1967 USGS National City quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1979 USGS San Diego quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
• 1996 USGS National City quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 520 fires within 5 miles of East San Diego between 1994 and 2020, burning about 329 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 105 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:

• Brooklyn Heights
• Chollas Creek
• Chollas View
• College Heights
• Emerald Hills
• North Park

Every fire recorded in San Diego County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of East San Diego: 20 past producers, 3 producers, 2 unknowns. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Salt, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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 San Diego County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East San Diego in 1 storm report in 2017: 1 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 San Diego 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 1660586. 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.