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Olive View, California

40 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the San Fernando Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 91342. It lies near Wilson Canyon. The Survey maps it on the San Fernando quadrangle.

Olive View within Los Angeles County

Then and now

1900 to 1995

The same ground, surveyed 95 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Olive View, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Olive View, surveyed 1900

Compare 1900 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

19 surveys from 40 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.

Fires near this place

519 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 519 fires within 5 miles of Olive View between 1992 and 2020, burning about 30,013 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 76 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/undetermined227
Equipment and vehicle use124
Arson/incendiarism76
Recreation and ceremony25
Debris and open burning15
Fireworks14
Power generation/transmission/distribution14
Smoking11
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Other causes4
Natural1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAngeles National ForestPAXTON
9 September 1992Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAngeles National ForestOLDS
7 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAngeles National ForestRANGE
6 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAngeles National ForestGILBERT
6 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAngeles National ForestPICKUP
6 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAngeles National Forestnot named
4 September 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAngeles National ForestKAGEL
30 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAngeles National ForestTRASH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Los Angeles County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 36 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 36 workings within 5 miles of Olive View: 21 past producers, 9 prospects, 5 occurrences, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Gold, Asbestos. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Alfredo Payola, Et Al.StoneOccurrence
Pacoima Hill QuarryGranite, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Reynier RanchVolcanic MaterialsPast Producer
Reynier Ranch Volcanic AshPumicePast Producer
Sand Canyon PlacersIron, Titanium, Zirconium, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect1983
Thompson PlacerIron, Gold, Platinum, Titanium, ZirconiumPast Producer
Wragg Ranch DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Black LodeGraphiteOccurrence
Fiber QueenAsbestosPast ProducerMetamorphic
Fiber QueenAsbestosPast Producer

Every working 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Sylmar1.2 miles40
Rancho Cascades2.4 miles40
San Fernando2.9 miles38
El Merrie Dell4.0 miles41
Kagel Canyon4.4 miles41
Pacoima4.4 miles38
Mission Hills4.8 miles38
Waltz4.8 miles40

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.

Wikidata item Q122557452The 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 1661145. 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.