Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1904 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics between 2005 and 2020, burning about 135 acres in total. None started naturally. 17 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 San Diego County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics: 11 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 Diego County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names La Jolla, the town this property stands in, in 25 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 8 funnel cloud, 4 rip current, 4 flood, 3 lightning. The reports record 3 deaths and 15 injuries. 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 San Diego 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.

• 1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 2 quadrangle1:250000 - 5 printings
• 1943 USGS La Jolla quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
• 1950 USGS San Diego quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS La Jolla quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
• 1954 USGS San Diego quadrangle1:250000
• 1955 USGS San Diego quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS San Diego quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
• 1967 USGS La Jolla quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
• 1979 USGS San Diego quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings
• 1996 USGS La Jolla 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
	George H. Scripps Memorial Marine Biological Laboratory	0.2 miles	1977
	Walter and Judith Munk House	0.6 miles	2021
	Case Study House No. 23C	1.6 miles	2013
	Torrey Pines Gliderport	1.6 miles	1993
	Red Rest and Red Roost Cottages	1.7 miles	1976
	La Jolla Post Office	1.8 miles	2013