North Long Beach, California

46 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Long Beach-Lakewood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 90805. The Survey maps it on the Long Beach quadrangle.

North Long Beach within Los Angeles County

Then and now

1896 to 1981

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.

Topographic sheet of North Long Beach, surveyed 1981

Topographic sheet of North Long Beach, surveyed 1896

Compare 1896 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 surveys from 46 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.

1896 USGS Downey quadrangle1:62500
1899 USGS Downey quadrangle1:62500
1901 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
1902 USGS Downey quadrangle1:62500, 9 printings
1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1925 USGS Clearwater quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1942 USGS Downey quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Downey quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1943 USGS San Pedro quadrangle1:125000
1949 USGS Long Beach quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1949 USGS Long Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Long Beach quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Long Beach quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Long Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Long Beach quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1981 USGS Long Beach quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

407 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 407 fires within 5 miles of North Long Beach between 2005 and 2020, burning about 5,812 acres in total. None started naturally. 36 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/undetermined	283
Arson/incendiarism	36
Smoking	33
Equipment and vehicle use	23
Misuse of fire by a minor	20
Debris and open burning	9
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Los Angeles County Fire Department	not named
8 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
8 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
7 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
6 September 2009	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
6 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
5 September 2005	Smoking	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
30 September 2018	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Los Angeles 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Douglas Junction	1.1 miles	46
Del Amo	1.6 miles	47
Dominguez Junction	1.7 miles	47
Bixby Knolls	1.8 miles	46
Cota	1.8 miles	47
California Heights	2.3 miles	46
Elftman	2.4 miles	47
Paramount	2.4 miles	44

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.

Wikipedia article on North Long Beach	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7055986	The 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 1661117. 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.