Puente Junction, California

The same ground, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1894 1982

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 within a mile 5 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• John A. Rowland Houselisted 1973 · 0.3 miles away
• Workman Family Cemeterylisted 1974 · 0.4 miles away
• Workman Adobelisted 1974 · 0.5 miles away
• La Puente Valley Woman's Clublisted 1999 · 0.7 miles away
• Temple Mansionlisted 1974 · 0.5 miles away

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.

• 1894 USGS Pomona quadrangle1:62500
• 1897 USGS Pomona quadrangle1:62500
• 1898 USGS Pomona quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1901 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1904 USGS Pomona quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
• 1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1927 USGS Puente quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1953 USGS Baldwin Park quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1953 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000, 2 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 Baldwin Park quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
• 1966 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
• 1982 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 396 fires within 5 miles of Puente Junction between 2005 and 2020, burning about 357 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 46 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:

• Hillgrove
• Industry
• Avocado Heights
• Hacienda Heights
• La Puente
• Rowland

Every fire recorded in Los Angeles County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Puente Junction: 4 past producers, 2 occurrences, 2 producers, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Geothermal, Calcium. 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 Los Angeles 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 1661261. 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.