Teakettle Junction, California

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1908 1987

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.

• 1908 USGS Ballarat quadrangle1:250000
• 1913 USGS Ballarat quadrangle1:250000, 7 printings
• 1948 USGS Death Valley quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1954 USGS Death Valley quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1956 USGS Death Valley quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Death Valley quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Dry Mountain quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Death Valley quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Death Valley quadrangle1:250000
• 1964 USGS Death Valley quadrangle1:250000
• 1965 USGS Death Valley quadrangle1:250000
• 1985 USGS Saline Valley quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1987 USGS Teakettle Junction quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Teakettle Junction: 3 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Lead, Lead, Silver, Gold, Copper, Zinc. 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 Inyo 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 1659963. 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.

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.