Millbrae Meadows, California

The same ground, surveyed 105 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1892 1997

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.

• 1892 USGS San Mateo quadrangle1:62500
• 1896 USGS San Mateo quadrangle1:62500
• 1899 USGS San Mateo quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
• 1915 USGS San Mateo quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
• 1939 USGS San Mateo quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1943 USGS San Mateo quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
• 1948 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
• 1949 USGS Montara Mountain quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1955 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Montara Mountain quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
• 1956 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1957 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
• 1964 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
• 1971 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
• 1978 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1985 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
• 1993 USGS Montara Mountain quadrangle1:24000
• 1997 USGS Montara Mountain quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 301 fires within 5 miles of Millbrae Meadows between 1992 and 2020, burning about 948 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 32 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:

• Lomita Park
• Baden
• Brisbane
• Broadmoor
• Broadmoor Village
• Colma

Every fire recorded in San Mateo County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Millbrae Meadows: 12 past producers, 10 producers. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Calcium, Silver. 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 Mateo 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 1659757. 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.