West Colton, California

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1896 1982

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.

• 1896 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:62500
• 1898 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:62500
• 1901 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
• 1901 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1938 USGS Colton quadrangle1:31680
• 1942 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:62500
• 1943 USGS Colton quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
• 1953 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1954 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1954 USGS San Bernardino South quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS San Bernardino South quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1975 USGS San Bernardino South quadrangle1:24000
• 1982 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 876 fires within 5 miles of West Colton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,089 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 138 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:

• Colton
• Bethune
• Bloomington
• Bunker Hill
• Rana
• Valley Gardens

Every fire recorded in San Bernardino County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 35 workings within 5 miles of West Colton: 26 past producers, 7 producers, 2 occurrences. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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 1661665. 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.