Miscanaka, California

The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1904 1982

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 7 records

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

• Mission San Buenaventura and Mission Compound Sitelisted 1975 · 0.1 miles away
• Feraud General Merchandise Storelisted 1986 · 0.2 miles away
• Emmanuel Franz Houselisted 1982 · 0.2 miles away
• Ventura County Courthouselisted 1971 · 0.3 miles away
• Ventura Theatrelisted 1986 · 0.4 miles away
• Elizabeth Bard Memorial Hospitallisted 1977 · 0.5 miles away
• First Baptist Church of Venturalisted 2009 · 0.7 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.

• 1904 USGS Ventura quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
• 1941 USGS Ventura quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1949 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1951 USGS Ventura quadrangle1:24000, 7 printings
• 1955 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1966 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000
• 1975 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1982 USGS Santa Barbara quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Miscanaka (historical) between 2005 and 2020, burning about 5,539 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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:

• Chrisman
• Kimballville (historical)
• Ventura
• Dulah
• North Ventura
• Ortonville

Every fire recorded in Ventura County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Miscanaka (historical): 9 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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 Ventura 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 1817373. 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.