Glendale, California

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.

1894 1979

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 12 of 13 shown

• Alexander Theatrelisted 1996
• Ard Eevinlisted 2006
• James Daniel Derby Houselisted 1978
• Doctors Houselisted 2023
• Glendale Southern Pacific Railroad Depotlisted 1997
• Glendale Young Men's Christian Associationlisted 1994
• Grand Central Air Terminallisted 2017
• Hotel Glendalelisted 1994
• Rockhaven Sanitarium Historic Districtlisted 2016
• San Rafael Rancholisted 1976
• Schaffer, J.W. Houselisted 2016
• US Post Office-Glendale Mainlisted 1985

Every listing in Los Angeles County

Glendale grew from 2,746 to 196,543 between 1910 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

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.

• 1894 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:62500
• 1896 USGS Santa Monica quadrangle1:62500
• 1898 USGS Santa Monica quadrangle1:62500
• 1900 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1901 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1902 USGS Santa Monica quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1920 USGS Santa Monica quadrangle1:62500
• 1921 USGS Santa Monica quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1928 USGS Glendale quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1949 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1953 USGS Burbank quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1955 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1966 USGS Burbank quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
• 1966 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000
• 1975 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1976 USGS Burbank quadrangle1:24000
• 1979 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 82 fires within 5 miles of Glendale between 2005 and 2020, burning about 2,254 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:

• West Glendale
• North Glendale
• Adams Square
• Burbank
• Burbank Junction
• Eagle Rock

Every fire recorded in Los Angeles County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Glendale: 12 past producers, 5 prospects, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gold, 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 Los Angeles County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glendale in 3 storm reports between 1997 and 2008: 1 dust devil, 1 wildfire, 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 Los Angeles 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 1660679. 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.