Palm Springs, California

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.

1901 1996

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 12 of 33 shown

• Dr. Franz Alexander Houselisted 2016
• Carey Houselisted 2015
• Coachella Valley Savings No. 1listed 2016
• Coachella Valley Savings No. 2listed 2016
• Edris Houselisted 2016
• Fire Station No. 1listed 2015
• First Church of Christ, Scientistlisted 2016
• Frey House IIlisted 2015
• Hamrick Houselisted 2016
• Kocher-Samson Buildinglisted 2015
• Koerner Houselisted 2016
• Loewy Houselisted 2015

Every listing in Riverside County

Palm Springs grew from 44,552 to 44,575 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

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.

• 1901 USGS San Jacinto quadrangle1:125000, 9 printings
• 1901 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1940 USGS Palm Springs quadrangle1:62500
• 1944 USGS Palm Springs quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
• 1949 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Palm Springs quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1957 USGS Palm Springs quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
• 1959 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1960 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1965 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
• 1975 USGS Palm Springs quadrangle1:24000
• 1984 USGS Palm Springs quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
• 1996 USGS Palm Springs quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 379 fires within 5 miles of Palm Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,231 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 28 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:

• Garnet
• North Palm Springs
• Cathedral City
• Royal Palms
• Salvia
• Suntown

Every fire recorded in Riverside County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Palm Springs: 2 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Geothermal, Limestone, General. 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 Riverside 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 1652768. 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.