Oak Grove, California

The same ground, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1903 1997

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 1 record

• Oak Grove Butterfield Stage StationNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966

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.

• 1903 USGS Ramona quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
• 1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 2 quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
• 1939 USGS Palomar Mountain quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1947 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
• 1949 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS Aguanga quadrangle1:24000, 9 printings
• 1956 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1960 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1965 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
• 1982 USGS Borrego Valley quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1997 USGS Aguanga quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 125 fires within 5 miles of Oak Grove between 1992 and 2020, burning about 22,726 acres in total. 43 started naturally. 6 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:

• Holcomb Village
• Palomar Mountain

Every fire recorded in San Diego County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Oak Grove: 2 occurrences, 1 past producer, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Semiprecious Gemstone, Gemstone, Lithium. 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 Diego 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 272744. 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.