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Green Lantern Village, California

44 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the North Coast census division. It lies in ZIP code area 92683. The Survey maps it on the Anaheim quadrangle.

Green Lantern Village within Orange County

Then and now

1896 to 1983

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Green Lantern Village, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet of Green Lantern Village, surveyed 1896

Compare 1896 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

19 surveys from 44 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

340 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 340 fires within 5 miles of Green Lantern Village between 1998 and 2020, burning about 7,091 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 53 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/undetermined172
Arson/incendiarism53
Equipment and vehicle use34
Misuse of fire by a minor27
Smoking26
Debris and open burning25
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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
8 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
8 September 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
6 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOrange County Fire Authoritynot named
6 September 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
30 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
3 September 2006Smokingunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
26 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Green Lantern Village: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Huntington Beach Asphalt and RockSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
La Bolsa Tile Co.ClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Orange 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
Midway City0.6 miles47
Del Prado Bolsa0.8 miles47
Westminster1.1 miles45
Sugar (historical)1.2 miles47
Driftwood Mobile Home Park1.2 miles47
Villa Magnolia Mobile Home Park1.3 miles47
Bolsa Verde1.4 miles47
Rancho del Sol Mobile Home Park1.6 miles47

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 Q122547422The 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 1763460. 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.