San Diego, California

The same ground, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1904 1996

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 88 shown

• BERKELEYNational Historic Landmark · listed 1990
• Botanical BuildingNational Historic Landmark · listed 1977
• Chicano ParkNational Historic Landmark
• Estudillo MansionNational Historic Landmark · listed 1970
• Mission Beach Roller CoasterNational Historic Landmark · listed 1978
• Old Mission DamNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966
• San Diego Mission ChurchNational Historic Landmark · listed 1970
• San Diego PresidioNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966
• STAR OF INDIANational Historic Landmark · listed 1966
• Balboa Theatrelisted 1996
• John R. and Florence Porterfield Beardsley Houselisted 2011
• Building 178listed 2001

Every listing in San Diego County

San Diego grew from 500 to 1,386,932 between 1850 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.

• 1904 USGS San Diego quadrangle1:62500, 9 printings
• 1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 2 quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
• 1930 USGS San Diego quadrangle1:62500
• 1942 USGS Point Loma quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
• 1950 USGS San Diego quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Point Loma quadrangle1:24000
• 1954 USGS San Diego quadrangle1:250000
• 1955 USGS San Diego quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS San Diego quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1967 USGS Point Loma quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
• 1979 USGS San Diego quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
• 1996 USGS Point Loma quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 414 fires within 5 miles of San Diego between 1994 and 2020, burning about 185 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 84 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:

• Barrio Logan
• Golden Hill
• Grant Hill
• Sherman Heights
• Brooklyn Heights
• Hillcrest

Every fire recorded in San Diego County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of San Diego: 6 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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 San Diego County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names San Diego in 21 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 6 flash flood, 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 lightning, 2 funnel cloud. The reports record 1 death and 3 injuries. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

Every storm recorded in San Diego 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 1661377. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.