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Tujunga, California

41 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the San Fernando Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 91042. It lies near Bluegum Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Sunland quadrangle. It stands 1,772 feet above sea level.

Tujunga within Los Angeles County

Then and now

1900 to 1995

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.

Topographic sheet of Tujunga, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Tujunga, surveyed 1900

Compare 1900 against another survey:

On record in Tujunga

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

20 surveys from 41 printed sheets

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.

Fires near this place

394 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 394 fires within 5 miles of Tujunga between 1992 and 2020, burning about 9,525 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 71 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.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined138
Equipment and vehicle use73
Arson/incendiarism71
Recreation and ceremony55
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Power generation/transmission/distribution11
Debris and open burning10
Smoking8
Fireworks7
Natural5
Other causes3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresAngeles National ForestBIG TUJUNGA
7 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAngeles National ForestOTTIE
6 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAngeles National ForestLITTLE
6 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAngeles National ForestHAINES
6 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAngeles National ForestSEDAN
5 September 2011Misuse of fire by a minor10 acresLos Angeles County Fire Departmentnot named
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAngeles National ForestMIDNIGHT
5 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAngeles National ForestTUNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Los Angeles County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Tujunga: 11 past producers, 3 prospects, 3 occurrences, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Graphite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
City Rock Company Pit.Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer1925
Hansen Dam QuarryGranite, StonePast ProducerGranite
Katz Diatomaceous ShaleDiatomiteProspect
Fascination SpringGoldOccurrence
Haines CanyonStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
KatzStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerShale
Los Angeles Silica Corp.SilicaOccurrence
Quartz Hill DepositSilicaPast Producer
R. VellaGoldProspect
Big Tujunga Canyon DepositGraphiteOccurrence

Every working recorded in Los Angeles County

Nearest settlements

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

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Sunland1.3 miles41
Highway Highlands2.0 miles48
La Crescenta3.2 miles51
Briggs Terrace3.4 miles51
Shadow Hills3.4 miles41
Verdugo City3.8 miles51
Lake View Terrace4.2 miles41
Stonehurst4.3 miles41

Elsewhere

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.

Wikidata item Q136486765The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 250657. 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.