Vidal Junction, California

The same ground, surveyed 42 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1943 1985

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.

• 1943 USGS Vidal quadrangle1:62500
• 1949 USGS Vidal quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1950 USGS Vidal quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1954 USGS Needles quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Needles quadrangle1:250000, 7 printings
• 1971 USGS Vidal Junction quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1981 USGS Needles quadrangle1:250000
• 1985 USGS Parker quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Vidal Junction: 4 occurrences, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Copper, Silver, Copper. 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 Bernardino 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 1661638. 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.