Petrolia, California

The same ground, surveyed 76 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1921 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

• Punta Gorda Light Stationlisted 1976

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.

• 1921 USGS Cape Mendocino quadrangle1:62500
• 1949 USGS Eureka quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1950 USGS Cape Mendocino quadrangle1:62500
• 1951 USGS Cape Mendocino quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Eureka quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Eureka quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1969 USGS Petrolia quadrangle1:24000
• 1989 USGS Cape Mendocino quadrangle1:100000
• 1997 USGS Petrolia quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Petrolia between 1992 and 2019, burning about 474 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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.

Every fire recorded in Humboldt County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Petrolia in 1 storm report in 2026: 1 flash 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 Humboldt 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 1659378. 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.

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.