Hooper, California

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1907 1993

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.

• 1907 USGS Antioch quadrangle1:62500
• 1908 USGS Antioch quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
• 1918 USGS Collinsville quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
• 1947 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1948 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000
• 1951 USGS Antioch quadrangle1:50000
• 1953 USGS Antioch North quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1953 USGS Pittsburg quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1957 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1978 USGS Antioch North quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1993 USGS Lodi quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 713 fires within 5 miles of Hooper (historical) between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,946 acres in total. None started naturally. 173 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:

• Los Medanos
• Cornwall
• Diamond
• Pittsburg
• Antioch
• Empire (historical)

Every fire recorded in Contra Costa County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Hooper (historical): 7 producers, 6 past producers, 4 occurrences, 3 prospects. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 Contra Costa 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 1682742. 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.