Gravesboro, California

The same ground, surveyed 62 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1920 1982

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 1 record

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

• Stoner Houselisted 1985 · 0.5 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.

• 1920 USGS Orangedale School quadrangle1:24000
• 1922 USGS Trimmer quadrangle1:96000
• 1923 USGS Orangedale School quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
• 1924 USGS Dinuba quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
• 1942 USGS Watts Valley quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1944 USGS Watts Valley quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1948 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:250000
• 1955 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1965 USGS Piedra quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1966 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:250000
• 1982 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 255 fires within 5 miles of Gravesboro between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,513 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 32 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:

• Avocado
• Oakhurst (historical)
• Piedra
• Big Bunch
• Cedar Crest
• Centerville

Every fire recorded in Fresno County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Gravesboro: 5 unknowns, 2 occurrences, 2 producers, 2 past producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Magnesite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Chromium. 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 Fresno 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 224509. 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.