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Inca, California

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Chuckwalla Valley census division. The Survey maps it on the Inca quadrangle.

Inca within Riverside County

Then and now

1942 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 44 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Inca, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Inca, surveyed 1942

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Inca: 5 past producers, 5 unknowns, 4 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Manganese, Wollastonite, Gold. 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
Big Maria Mountains Limestone Dep.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Crescent Copper GroupCopper, Silver, GoldPast ProducerVein
Langdon MineIron, ManganesePast Producer1917, 1918
Mountain KingCopper, Gold, SilverOccurrenceVein
Western States Stone QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducer
Allen PlacersGoldUnknown
Arentz-PerkinsManganeseUnknown
Hauser, Martin & CheeseboroughManganeseOccurrence
Langdon DepositManganeseProducerManganite, Psilomelane, Pyrolusite
Little Maria Mountains WollastonitWollastoniteUnknown

Every working recorded in Riverside 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
Cox2.6 miles20
Midland4.6 miles20
Styx5.5 miles20
Mesaville9.6 miles20
Tosco (historical)11.5 miles18
Mesa Verde13.6 miles17
Blythe15.9 miles21
East Blythe16.6 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 243799. 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.

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.