Point Arena, California

The same ground, surveyed 38 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1943 1981

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 15 shown

• Arena Cove Historic Districtlisted 1990
• E. P. and Clara Gillmore Houselisted 1990
• Sid Groshon Houselisted 1990
• Hoyt-Scott Houselisted 1990
• Iverson Houselisted 1990
• Billy Ketchum Houselisted 1990
• Main Street Historic Commercial Districtlisted 1990
• Annie Palmer Houselisted 1990
• Point Arena Light Stationlisted 1991
• St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Churchlisted 1990
• Buckridge Ranch Houselisted 1990
• Italian Hotellisted 1990

Every listing in Mendocino County

Point Arena grew from 449 to 460 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.

• 1943 USGS Point Arena quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1947 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
• 1949 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1960 USGS Point Arena quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
• 1960 USGS Point Arena quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
• 1964 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
• 1981 USGS Point Arena quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 111 fires within 5 miles of Point Arena between 1992 and 2020, burning about 135 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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:

• Flumeville
• Iverson Indian Rancheria
• Stronetta (historical)
• Manchester
• Gallaway
• Signal Port (historical)

Every fire recorded in Mendocino County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Point Arena: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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.

Every working recorded in Mendocino 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 1659411. 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.