Walter D. Valentine Cottage B

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 101 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1894 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 219 fires within 5 miles of Walter D. Valentine Cottage B between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,096 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 28 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.

Every fire recorded in Los Angeles County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Walter D. Valentine Cottage B: 4 past producers, 3 producers, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold. 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 Los Angeles County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Altadena, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 2 flash flood, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

Every storm recorded in Los Angeles County

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

• 1894 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:62500
• 1896 USGS Pasadena quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
• 1900 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
• 1900 USGS Pasadena quadrangle1:62500 - 10 printings
• 1901 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
• 1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
• 1928 USGS Altadena quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
• 1949 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
• 1953 USGS Mt. Wilson quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
• 1955 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
• 1966 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Mt. Wilson quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
• 1975 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
• 1979 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:100000
• 1995 USGS Mount Wilson quadrangle1:24000

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Gen. Charles S. Farnsworth County Park	0.8 miles	1997
	Woodbury-Story House	0.8 miles	1993
	Keyes Bungalow	0.8 miles	1978
	Andrew McNally House	0.9 miles	2007
	Pacific Electric Railway Company Substation No. 8	0.9 miles	1977
	Christmas Tree Lane	1.1 miles	1990