Parkfield, California

The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1914 1989

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.

• 1914 USGS Cholame quadrangle1:125000
• 1915 USGS Cholame quadrangle1:125000
• 1917 USGS Cholame quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
• 1942 USGS Parkfield quadrangle1:24000
• 1943 USGS Parkfield quadrangle1:31680
• 1947 USGS San Luis Obispo quadrangle1:250000
• 1948 USGS San Luis Obispo quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS San Luis Obispo quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
• 1957 USGS San Luis Obispo quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS San Luis Obispo quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Parkfield quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Parkfield quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1989 USGS Paso Robles quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Parkfield between 1993 and 2018, burning about 659 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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.

Every fire recorded in Monterey County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Parkfield: 9 past producers, 6 occurrences, 3 prospects, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mercury, Copper, Magnesite, Uranium. 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 Monterey County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Parkfield in 3 storm reports between 2005 and 2025: 1 hail, 1 heavy rain, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

Every storm recorded in Monterey 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 1661195. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.