Ellis, California

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1901 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 2 records

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

• Perris Depotlisted 1994 · 0.6 miles away
• Southern Hotellisted 1992 · 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.

• 1901 USGS Elsinore quadrangle1:125000, 8 printings
• 1901 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1942 USGS Perris quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1943 USGS Perris quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
• 1949 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Perris quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1960 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1965 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Perris quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1983 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2,091 fires within 5 miles of Ellis between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,812 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 194 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:

• Perris
• Rancho las Perris
• Good Hope
• Good Meadow
• Quail Valley
• Sun City

Every fire recorded in Riverside County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 34 workings within 5 miles of Ellis: 16 past producers, 8 prospects, 6 producers, 4 occurrences. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Manganese, Slate, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 Riverside County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ellis in 2 storm reports between 2016 and 2024: 1 funnel cloud, 1 dust devil. The reports record 2 deaths and 2 injuries. 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 Riverside 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 1660614. 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.