Riverside Junction, California

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1901 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 15 shown

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

• Harada HouseNational Historic Landmark · listed 1977 · 0.4 miles away
• Mission InnNational Historic Landmark · listed 1971 · 0.7 miles away
• Sutherland Fruit Companylisted 1986 · 0.5 miles away
• San Pedro, Los Angeles, & Salt Lake RR Depotlisted 1977 · 0.5 miles away
• First Church of Christ, Scientistlisted 1992 · 0.6 miles away
• Riverside-Arlington Heights Fruit Exchangelisted 1980 · 0.6 miles away
• Old YWCA Buildinglisted 1982 · 0.6 miles away
• Riverside Municipal Auditorium and Soldier's Memorial Buildinglisted 1978 · 0.6 miles away
• All Souls Universalist Churchlisted 1978 · 0.6 miles away
• First Congregational Church of Riversidelisted 1997 · 0.7 miles away
• Federal Post Officelisted 1978 · 0.7 miles away
• M. H. Simon's Undertaking Chapellisted 1980 · 0.9 miles away

Every listing in Riverside 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.

• 1901 USGS Elsinore quadrangle1:125000, 8 printings
• 1901 USGS Riverside quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
• 1901 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1942 USGS Riverside quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1942 USGS Riverside and Vicinity quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
• 1943 USGS Riverside quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
• 1949 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Riverside East 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 Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Riverside East quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
• 1983 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,243 fires within 5 miles of Riverside Junction between 1992 and 2020, burning about 15,832 acres in total. None started naturally. 167 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:

• Belltown
• Bannockburn Village
• Belvedere Heights
• Canyon Crest Heights
• Highgrove
• Lemona

Every fire recorded in Riverside County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 37 workings within 5 miles of Riverside Junction: 28 past producers, 7 producers, 1 prospect, 1 occurrence. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Silica. 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 Riverside County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 252972. 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.