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Los Alamitos Junction, California

44 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Anaheim-Santa Ana-Garden Grove census division. It lies in ZIP code area 90680. The Survey maps it on the Anaheim quadrangle.

Los Alamitos Junction within Orange County

Then and now

1896 to 1983

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Los Alamitos Junction, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet of Los Alamitos Junction, surveyed 1896

Compare 1896 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

19 surveys from 44 printed sheets

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.

Fires near this place

275 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 275 fires within 5 miles of Los Alamitos Junction between 1998 and 2020, burning about 7,070 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 48 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.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined130
Arson/incendiarism48
Smoking27
Equipment and vehicle use25
Misuse of fire by a minor22
Debris and open burning20
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
6 September 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
30 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
26 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
25 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
24 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLos Angeles County Fire Departmentnot named
23 September 2011Smokingunder an acreOrange County Fire Authoritynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Los Alamitos Junction: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Orange County Brick & Tile Co.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Orange County

Nearest settlements

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

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Stanton0.4 miles44
Clair0.8 miles44
Hansen1.0 miles49
Shirley1.8 miles49
La Belle Fontane Estates1.9 miles44
Halcon2.1 miles49
Cypress2.2 miles49
Nutwood2.6 miles44

Elsewhere

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.

Wikidata item Q122568458The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1660946. 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.