Play Port Mobile Home Village, California
47 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Central Coast census division. It lies in ZIP code area 92627. It lies near Newport Island. The Survey maps it on the Newport Beach quadrangle.
Then and now
1896 to 1983The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1896 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
19 surveys from 47 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1896 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1901 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
- 1901 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
- 1902 USGS Corona quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
- 1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1932 USGS Newport Beach quadrangle1:31680
- 1935 USGS Newport Beach quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
- 1942 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1947 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Newport Beach quadrangle1:24000
- 1949 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
- 1951 USGS Newport Beach quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Newport Beach quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1965 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Costa Mesa quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
228 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 228 fires within 5 miles of Play Port Mobile Home Village between 2005 and 2020, burning about 101 acres in total. None started naturally. 34 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/undetermined | 159 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 34 |
| Smoking | 10 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 9 |
| Debris and open burning | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Orange County Fire Authority | not named |
| 8 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 3 September 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Orange County Fire Authority | not named |
| 3 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 28 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 24 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 23 September 2006 | Smoking | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 2 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Play Port Mobile Home Village: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Salt, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Huntington Beach Plant Sully-Miller | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Newport Bay, Shellmaker, Inc. | Salt | Past Producer | ||
| Salt Ponds | Salt | Past Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Island View Trailer Park | 0.1 miles | 47 | |
| Greenleaf Mobile Home Park | 0.2 miles | 47 | |
| Seacliffe Mobile Home Park | 0.4 miles | 47 | |
| Ebbtide Mobile Home Park | 0.4 miles | 47 | |
| Regal Mobile Club Estates | 0.5 miles | 47 | |
| Newport Terrace Mobile Home Park | 0.5 miles | 47 | |
| Harbor Mobile Home Park | 0.5 miles | 47 | |
| El Nido Mobile Home Estates (historical) | 0.8 miles | 47 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1765292. 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.


















