New Chinatown, California

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1894 1979

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 12 of 13 shown

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

• Little Tokyo Historic DistrictNational Historic Landmark · listed 1986 · 0.8 miles away
• Bradbury BuildingNational Historic Landmark · listed 1971 · 1.0 miles away
• US Post Office-Los Angeles Terminal Annexlisted 1985 · 0.2 miles away
• Plaza Substationlisted 1978 · 0.4 miles away
• Plaza Houselisted 1972 · 0.4 miles away
• Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminallisted 1980 · 0.5 miles away
• US Court House and Post Officelisted 2006 · 0.5 miles away
• Federal Buildinglisted 2021 · 0.6 miles away
• Million Dollar Theaterlisted 1978 · 1.0 miles away
• Los Angeles City Halllisted 2025 · 0.6 miles away
• Los Angeles County Law Librarylisted 2025 · 0.7 miles away
• Higgins Buildinglisted 2023 · 0.9 miles away

Every listing in Los Angeles County

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.

• 1894 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:62500
• 1896 USGS Pasadena quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1900 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1900 USGS Pasadena quadrangle1:62500, 10 printings
• 1901 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1928 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1949 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1953 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:24000
• 1955 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1966 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
• 1966 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000
• 1975 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1979 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 219 fires within 5 miles of New Chinatown between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,243 acres in total. None started naturally. 20 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:

• Aliso Village
• Brooklyn Heights
• Bunker Hill Towers
• Glendale Junction
• Little Tokyo
• Los Angeles

Every fire recorded in Los Angeles County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of New Chinatown: 23 past producers, 3 prospects, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, 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 Los Angeles 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 1682217. 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.