La Jolla, California

The same ground, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1904 1996

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 7 records

• George H. Scripps Memorial Marine Biological LaboratoryNational Historic Landmark · listed 1977
• La Jolla Women's Clublisted 1974
• Red Rest and Red Roost Cottageslisted 1976
• Case Study House No. 23Clisted 2013
• Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physicslisted 2021
• Martha Kinsey Houselisted 1992
• La Jolla Park Coastal Historic Districtlisted 2024

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.

• 1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 2 quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
• 1943 USGS La Jolla quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
• 1950 USGS San Diego quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS La Jolla quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1954 USGS San Diego quadrangle1:250000
• 1955 USGS San Diego quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS San Diego quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1967 USGS La Jolla quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1979 USGS San Diego quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
• 1996 USGS La Jolla quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of La Jolla between 2005 and 2020, burning about 117 acres in total. None started naturally. 16 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:

• Easter Cross
• Elvira (historical)
• La Jolla Shores
• Ladrillo (historical)
• Linda Vista (historical)
• North Clairemont

Every fire recorded in San Diego County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of La Jolla: 8 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Salt, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 Diego County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names La Jolla in 25 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 8 funnel cloud, 4 rip current, 4 flood, 3 lightning. The reports record 3 deaths and 15 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 San Diego 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 1660855. 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.