Rancho La Paz, California

The 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.

1896 1983

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 12 of 13 shown

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

• Santa Fe Railway Passenger and Freight Depotlisted 1992 · 0.7 miles away
• Fullerton Union Pacific Depotlisted 1983 · 0.8 miles away
• Dewella Apartmentslisted 2009 · 0.9 miles away
• Elephant Packing Houselisted 1983 · 0.9 miles away
• Fullerton Post Officelisted 2012 · 0.9 miles away
• Farmers and Merchants Bank of Fullertonlisted 1994 · 0.9 miles away
• Hetebrink Houselisted 1993 · 1.0 miles away
• Chapman Buildinglisted 1983 · 1.0 miles away
• Louis Plummer Auditoriumlisted 1993 · 1.0 miles away
• Fullerton First Methodist Episcopal Churchlisted 2001 · 0.9 miles away
• Fullerton Odd Fellows Templelisted 2002 · 0.9 miles away
• Pomona Court and Apartmentslisted 2017 · 1.0 miles away

Every listing in Orange County

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.

• 1896 USGS Anaheim quadrangle1:62500
• 1898 USGS Anaheim quadrangle1:62500
• 1901 USGS Anaheim 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
• 1935 USGS Garden Grove quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
• 1942 USGS Anaheim quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1947 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
• 1949 USGS Anaheim quadrangle1:24000
• 1949 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
• 1950 USGS Anaheim quadrangle1:24000
• 1956 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1960 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1965 USGS Anaheim quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1965 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
• 1974 USGS Anaheim quadrangle1:24000
• 1983 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 123 fires within 5 miles of Rancho La Paz between 2005 and 2020, burning about 69 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 29 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:

• Fullerton
• Santa Ysabel (historical)
• Anaheim
• Anaheim Shores
• La Jolla
• Placentia

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Rancho La Paz: 10 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 Orange 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 1765078. 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.