Kelso, California

The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1910 1985

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 3 records

• Kelso Depot, Restaurant and Employees Hotellisted 2001
• Marl Springs Corrallisted 2021
• Vulcan Mine Historic Districtlisted 2019

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.

• 1910 USGS Ivanpah quadrangle1:250000
• 1912 USGS Ivanpah quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
• 1942 USGS Ivanpah quadrangle1:250000
• 1947 USGS Kingman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1948 USGS Kingman quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS Kingman quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1955 USGS Kelso quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1955 USGS Kingman quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Kingman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1960 USGS Kingman quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1983 USGS Kelso quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1985 USGS Ivanpah quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Kelso between 1996 and 2017, burning about 1 acre in total. 4 started naturally. None was 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:

• Hayden
• Flynn

Every fire recorded in San Bernardino County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Kelso: 8 prospects, 6 occurrences, 5 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Iron, Silver, Copper. 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 San Bernardino County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kelso in 9 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 7 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 lightning. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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 San Bernardino 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 244232. 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.