Palm Wells, California

The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1901 1997

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 Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1902 USGS San Gorgonio quadrangle1:125000, 8 printings
• 1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1953 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1955 USGS Morongo Valley quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1956 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
• 1972 USGS Morongo Valley quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1982 USGS Big Bear Lake quadrangle1:100000
• 1997 USGS Morongo Valley quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 174 fires within 5 miles of Palm Wells between 1992 and 2020, burning about 65,025 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 11 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:

• Little Morongo Heights
• Morongo Valley
• Pioneertown
• Yucca Valley
• Baldwin Lake
• Doble

Every fire recorded in San Bernardino County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Palm Wells: 3 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Copper, 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 San Bernardino 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 1667143. 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.