Jefferson, California

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1894 1979

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 12 of 13 shown

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

• Los Angeles Memorial ColiseumNational Historic Landmark · listed 1984 · 1.0 miles away
• Al Malaikah Templelisted 1987 · 0.6 miles away
• St. John's Episcopal Churchlisted 2000 · 0.6 miles away
• Exposition Park Rose Gardenlisted 1991 · 0.8 miles away
• Stimson Houselisted 1978 · 0.8 miles away
• Roosevelt Buildinglisted 2007 · 0.8 miles away
• Twenty-eighth Street YMCAlisted 2009 · 0.8 miles away
• Second Baptist Churchlisted 2009 · 0.9 miles away
• Fire Station No. 14listed 2009 · 1.0 miles away
• Natural History Museumlisted 1975 · 1.0 miles away
• Moneta Branchlisted 1987 · 1.0 miles away
• University of Southern California Historic Districtlisted 2015 · 0.8 miles away

Every listing in Los Angeles County

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.

• 1894 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:62500
• 1896 USGS Santa Monica quadrangle1:62500
• 1898 USGS Santa Monica quadrangle1:62500
• 1900 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1901 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1902 USGS Santa Monica quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1920 USGS Santa Monica quadrangle1:62500
• 1921 USGS Santa Monica quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1928 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1949 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1953 USGS Hollywood quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1955 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1966 USGS Hollywood quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1966 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000
• 1975 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1979 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 130 fires within 5 miles of Jefferson between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,071 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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:

• Saint James Park
• Nevin
• Koreatown
• Clement Junction
• Country Club Park
• Harvard Heights

Every fire recorded in Los Angeles County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Jefferson: 15 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Talc-Soapstone. 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 Los Angeles County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1660812. 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.