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Five Points, California

49 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Upper San Gabriel Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 91732. It stands on Walnut Creek. The Survey maps it on the El Monte quadrangle.

Five Points within Los Angeles County

Then and now

1894 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Five Points, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Five Points, surveyed 1894

Compare 1894 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 surveys from 49 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

480 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 480 fires within 5 miles of Five Points between 2005 and 2020, burning about 477 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 54 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/undetermined298
Arson/incendiarism54
Smoking39
Equipment and vehicle use37
Misuse of fire by a minor30
Debris and open burning21
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
9 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLos Angeles County Fire Departmentnot named
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.5 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
6 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
6 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLos Angeles County Fire Departmentnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Los Angeles County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 41 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 41 workings within 5 miles of Five Points: 30 past producers, 6 producers, 5 prospects. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Gold, Silver. 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
City of Industry PlantCalciumProducer
Sunburst PitStone, DimensionPast Producer
Century Sand and GravelGold, SilverPast Producer
Gladding Mcbean & Co. - Pico PitClayPast Producer
Gladding Mcbean - Pico PitClayProspectSedimentary
Rancho AzusaGold, SilverPast Producer
Arrow Rock Co Duarte PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Arrow Sand & Gravel, IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Baldwin Park Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Baldwin Park PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

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
El Monte0.6 miles49
Hayes0.8 miles49
Maxson1.1 miles49
Bassett1.5 miles36
South El Monte1.6 miles49
Clayton (historical)2.3 miles49
Avocado Heights2.3 miles36
Savannah (historical)2.5 miles49

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.

Wikidata item Q2882037The 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 242286. 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.