Moss, California

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1907 1989

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.

• 1907 USGS Holtville quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
• 1940 USGS Alamorio quadrangle1:62500
• 1942 USGS El Centro quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1945 USGS Alamorio quadrangle1:62500
• 1954 USGS El Centro quadrangle1:250000
• 1955 USGS El Centro quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Alamorio quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1957 USGS Holtville quadrangle1:62500
• 1958 USGS El Centro quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1961 USGS El Centro quadrangle1:250000
• 1964 USGS El Centro quadrangle1:250000
• 1989 USGS El Centro quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Moss between 1992 and 2013, burning about 165 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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:

• Butlers (historical)
• Mayflower (historical)
• Munyon
• Wiest
• Orita
• Alamorio

Every fire recorded in Imperial County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Moss: 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Gold. 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 Imperial 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 1656577. 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.