Watson, California

The same ground, surveyed 105 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1890 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.

• 1890 USGS Red Bluff quadrangle1:250000
• 1894 USGS Red Bluff quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1949 USGS Colyear Springs quadrangle1:62500
• 1957 USGS Colyear Springs quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Redding quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
• 1967 USGS Raglin Ridge quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1979 USGS Red Bluff quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
• 1995 USGS Raglin Ridge quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Watson between 1992 and 2020, burning about 55,604 acres in total. 12 started naturally. None was 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:

• Hammer Place
• Banfield Place
• Mary Ellen Place
• Brown Place
• Copple Place
• Montgomery Place

Every fire recorded in Tehama County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 33 workings within 5 miles of Watson: 11 past producers, 8 occurrences, 7 producers, 6 prospects. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Chromium, Copper, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese. 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 Tehama 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 1666636. 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.