La Crescenta, California

The same ground, surveyed 101 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1894 1995

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 2 records

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

• Schaffer, J.W. Houselisted 2016 · 0.8 miles away
• Rockhaven Sanitarium Historic Districtlisted 2016 · 0.9 miles away

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 Pasadena quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1900 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1900 USGS Pasadena quadrangle1:62500, 10 printings
• 1901 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1928 USGS La Crescenta quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1933 USGS La Crescenta quadrangle1:24000
• 1939 USGS La Crescenta quadrangle1:20000
• 1939 USGS La Crescenta quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1949 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1953 USGS Pasadena quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1955 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1966 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Pasadena quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
• 1975 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1979 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:100000
• 1995 USGS Pasadena quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 292 fires within 5 miles of La Crescenta between 1992 and 2020, burning about 169,047 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 47 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:

• Sparr Heights
• Verdugo City
• Highway Highlands
• Montrose
• Altacanyada
• Briggs Terrace

Every fire recorded in Los Angeles County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of La Crescenta: 7 past producers, 3 producers, 2 prospects, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Graphite, Granite, Silica. 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

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names La Crescenta in 4 storm reports between 2005 and 2010: 3 flash flood, 1 hail. 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 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.

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 1660848. 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.