Stonehurst, California

The same ground, surveyed 95 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1900 1995

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.

• 1900 USGS Fernando quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1900 USGS San Fernando quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1901 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1926 USGS Sunland quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1932 USGS Sunland quadrangle1:24000
• 1933 USGS Sunland quadrangle1:24000
• 1940 USGS San Fernando quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1942 USGS Sunland quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1945 USGS San Fernando quadrangle1:62500
• 1949 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1953 USGS Sunland quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1955 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1966 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Sunland quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1975 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1979 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:100000
• 1991 USGS Sunland quadrangle1:24000
• 1995 USGS Sunland quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 431 fires within 5 miles of Stonehurst between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,823 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 65 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:

• El Merrie Dell
• Kagel Canyon
• Lake View Terrace
• Pacoima
• Wahoo (historical)
• Indian Springs

Every fire recorded in Los Angeles County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 49 workings within 5 miles of Stonehurst: 40 past producers, 4 occurrences, 4 prospects, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Limestone, General, 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 Los Angeles County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stonehurst in 1 storm report in 2014: 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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 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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1661508. 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.