Huntington Beach, California

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• Orange County

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.

1896 1983

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 6 records

• Helme-Worthy Store and Residencelisted 1987
• Huntington Beach Municipal Pierlisted 1989
• Huntington Beach Public Library on Triangle Parklisted 2013
• Newland Houselisted 1985
• ELECTRA (motor yacht)listed 2023
• Huntington Beach Elementary School Gymnasium and Plungelisted 1994

Huntington Beach grew from 189,992 to 198,711 between 2010 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.

• 1896 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1901 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
• 1901 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1902 USGS Corona quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
• 1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1932 USGS Newport Beach quadrangle1:31680
• 1935 USGS Newport Beach quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
• 1942 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1947 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
• 1949 USGS Newport Beach quadrangle1:24000
• 1949 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
• 1951 USGS Newport Beach quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1960 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1965 USGS Newport Beach quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1965 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
• 1974 USGS Costa Mesa quadrangle1:24000
• 1983 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 226 fires within 5 miles of Huntington Beach between 2005 and 2020, burning about 96 acres in total. None started naturally. 29 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:

• Huntington Shorecliffs Mobile Home Park
• Pacific Trailer Park
• Costa Mesa
• Greenleaf Mobile Home Park
• Hoosier Trailer Court
• Huntington Mobile Home Estates

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Huntington Beach: 2 past producers, 1 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.

Every working recorded in Orange County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Huntington Beach in 36 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 8 rip current, 7 flood, 5 funnel cloud, 4 heavy rain. The reports record 5 deaths and 17 injuries. 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 Orange 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 1652724. 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.