Laws, California

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1913 1994

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 1 record

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

• Laws Narrow Gauge Railroad Historic Districtlisted 1981 · 0.2 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.

• 1913 USGS Bishop quadrangle1:125000, 8 printings
• 1947 USGS Mariposa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1948 USGS Mariposa quadrangle1:250000
• 1949 USGS Bishop quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1951 USGS Bishop quadrangle1:62500
• 1957 USGS Mariposa quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1963 USGS Mariposa quadrangle1:250000
• 1978 USGS Bishop quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1984 USGS Laws quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1994 USGS Laws quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 142 fires within 5 miles of Laws between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1,430 acres in total. 6 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:

• Brockmans Corner
• Bishop
• Bishop Trail Park
• Poleta
• Sunland (historical)
• Oteys Sierra Village

Every fire recorded in Inyo County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 31 workings within 5 miles of Laws: 15 past producers, 10 prospects, 4 producers, 2 occurrences. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver, Pumice. 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 Inyo County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Laws in 4 storm reports between 2013 and 2022: 2 flash flood, 2 flood. 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 Inyo 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 1659742. 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.