Fort Ross, California

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1921 1998

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 2 records

• Fort RossNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966
• Fort Ross Commander's HouseNational Historic Landmark · listed 1970

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.

• 1921 USGS Skaggs quadrangle1:62500
• 1943 USGS Fort Ross quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1944 USGS Fort Ross quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
• 1947 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
• 1949 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1962 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
• 1964 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
• 1978 USGS Fort Ross quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1981 USGS Point Arena quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1998 USGS Fort Ross quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Fort Ross between 1992 and 2020, burning about 112 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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:

• Seaview
• Toners Place
• Walsh Landing
• Truth Home
• Goat Rock
• Jenner

Every fire recorded in Sonoma County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Fort Ross: 4 occurrences, 1 unknown, 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Mercury, Calcium, Calcium, Iron, Manganese, Silica. 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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 252677. 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.