quad challenge: California

Every quadrangle is named for something.  This "quad challenge" is to visit the named feature of every quadrangle.  The easiest form of the challenge would be the 2°x1° (which isn't even square!) series and the hardest form is the 7.5' series.  In between, there are 15' and 30' squares.  All but the 7.5' series have missing pieces, and 7.5' are missing in Alaska.  It can be made more difficult in some areas where historic quads with a slightly different grid were named for different features (if including all quads including historic ones).  It can be made easier in some areas where the quad is apparently so boring that it is named [direction] of [feature], making that feature a two or even three for one.

I will split things into counties to make the challenge a series of more obtainable challenges. Many quadrangles sit on county lines, but I will file them according to which county the feature exists in.  Features on the county line place the quad in multiple counties.  Replaced quads will be marked (historic).  Just creating the list is likely to be a long work in progress.

Alameda County


Alpine County


Amador County


Butte County


Calaveras County


Colusa County


Contra Costa County


Del Norte County


El Dorodo County


Fresno County


Glenn County


Humboldt County


Imperial County


Inyo County

  • 1°x2°
  • 30'x60'
  • 30'x30'
  • 15'x15'
  • 7.5'x7.5'

Kern County


Kings County


Lake County


Lassen County


Los Angeles County

  • 1°x2°
    • Long Beach
    • Los Angeles
  • 30'x60'
    • Lancaster
    • Long Beach
    • Los Angeles
    • San Clemente Island
    • Santa Catalina Island
  • 30'x30'
    • Camulos
    • Elizabeth Lake
  • 15'x15'
    • Acton
    • Alpine Butte
    • Boquet Reservoir
    • Calabasas
    • Downey
    • Lancaster
    • Los Angeles
    • Pasadena
    • Pomona
    • Redondo
    • San Fernando
    • Santa Monica
    • Valyermo
  • 7.5'x7.5'
    • Acton
    • Adobe Mountains
    • Agua Dulce
    • Alder Creek (historic)
    • Alhambra (historic)
    • Alpine Butte
    • Altadena (historic)
    • Angle (historic)
    • Artesia (historic)
    • Azusa
    • Baldwin Park
    • Beartrap Canyon (historic)
    • Bell (historic)
    • Beverley Hills
    • Black Butte (historic)
    • Boneyard Canyon (historic)
    • Bouquet Reservoir (historic)
    • Burbank
    • Burnt Peak
    • Calabasas
    • Camp Baldy (historic)
    • Camp Bonita (historic)
    • Camp Rincon (historic)
    • Canoga Park
    • Casa Desierta (historic)
    • Castaic (historic)
    • Chatsworth (historic)
    • Chilao Flat
    • Chileno Canyon (historic)
    • Cima Mesa (historic)
    • Claremont (historic)
    • Clearwater (historic)
    • Condor Peak
    • Crystal Lake
    • Compton (historic)
    • Covina (historic)
    • Del Sur
    • Dry Canyon (historic)
    • El Mirage
    • El Monte
    • Esperanza School (historic)
    • Evey Canyon (historic)
    • Fairmont Butte
    • Glendale (historic)
    • Glendora
    • Gorman (historic)
    • Green Valley
    • Hi Vista
    • Hollywood
    • Humphreys (historic)
    • Inglewood
    • Jackrabbit Hill
    • Joshua (historic)
    • Juniper Hills
    • La Crescenta (historic)
    • La Habre
    • La Liebre Ranch
    • La Vern (historic)
    • Lake (historic)
    • Lake Hughes
    • Lancaster: east and west
    • Lang (historic)
    • Las Flores (historic)
    • Liebre Mountain
    • Little Tujunga (historic)
    • Little Buttes
    • Littlerock
    • Llano (historic)
    • Long Beach
    • Los Angeles
    • Lovejoy Buttes
    • Malibu Beach
    • Manzana (historic)
    • Mescal Creek
    • Mint Canyon
    • Mount Baden-Powell (historic)
    • Mount Baldy
    • Mount Emma (historic)
    • Mount Gleason (historic)
    • Mount Lowe (historic)
    • Mount San Antonio
    • Mount Wilson
    • Neenach School
    • Newhaul
    • Oat Mountain
    • Oban (historic)
    • Pacifico Mountain
    • Pacoima (historic)
    • Palmdale
    • Pasadena
    • Pearland (historic)
    • Pico (historic)
    • Point Dume
    • Puente (historic)
    • Quail (historic)
    • Ravenna (historic)
    • Red Mountain (historic)
    • Red Rover (historic)
    • Redman
    • Redondo Beach
    • Redrock Mountain (historic)
    • Resceda (historic)
    • Ritter Ridge
    • Roosavelt School
    • Rosamond Lake
    • San Clemente Island: north, central, and south
    • San Dimas
    • San Fernando
    • San Francisquito
    • San Pedro
    • San Pedro Hills (historic)
    • Santa Catalina: north, south, east, and west
    • Saugas (historic)
    • Sawtelle (historic)
    • Seminole (historic)
    • Sierra Madre (historic)
    • Sleepy Valley
    • Solstice Canyon (historic)
    • South Gate
    • Sunland
    • Swarthout (historic)
    • Sylmar (historic)
    • Tierra Bonita (historic)
    • Topanga
    • Torrence
    • Trail Canyon (historic)
    • Val Verde
    • Valyermo
    • Van Nuys
    • Vinice
    • Violin Canyon (historic)
    • Warm Spring (historic)
    • Warm Springs Mountain
    • Waterman Mountain
    • Watts (historic)
    • Whitaker Peak
    • Wilmington (historic)
    • Wilsona (historic)
    • Wittier
    • Zelzah (historic)

Madera County


Marin County


Mariposa County


Medocino County


Merced County


Modoc County


Mono County


Monterey County


Napa County


Nevada County


Orange County


Placer County


Plumas County

  • 1°x2°
  • 30'x60'
  • 30'x30'
  • 15'x15'
  • 7.5'x7.5'

Riverside County


Sacramento County


San Benito County


San Bernardino County


San Diego County


City and county of San Francisco


San Joaquin County


San Luis Obispo County

  • 1°x2°
    • San Luis Obispo
  • 30'x60'
    • Cambria
    • San Luis Obispo
    • Paso Robles
  • 30'x30'
    • Cholame
    • San Luis
  • 15'x15'
    • Adelaida
    • Arroyo Grande
    • Branch Mountain
    • Caliente Mountain
    • Cayucos
    • La Panza
    • Nipomo
    • Paso Robles
    • Pozo
    • San Luis Obispo
    • San Miguel
    • San Simeon
    • Shandon
    • Simmler
  • 7.5'x7.5'
    • Adelaida
    • Arroyo Grande NE
    • Atascadero
    • Branch Mountain
    • Burnett Peak
    • Caldwell Mesa
    • Caliente Mountain
    • California Valley
    • Camatta Canyon
    • Camatta Ranch
    • Cambria
    • Cayucos
    • Chimineas Ranch
    • Chimney Canyon
    • Cholame
    • Cholame Valley
    • Creston
    • Cuyama
    • Cypress Mountain
    • Elkhorn Hills
    • Estrella
    • Holland Canyon
    • Huasna Peak
    • La Panza: +NE
    • La Panza Ranch
    • Lime Mountain
    • Lopez Mountain
    • Los Machos Hills
    • Moro Bay: north and south
    • Nipomo
    • Oceano
    • Painted Rock
    • Panorama Hills
    • Paso Robles (city, been there)
    • Pebblestone Shut-in
    • Pico Creek
    • Piedras Blancas
    • Pismo Beach
    • Port San Luis
    • Pozo Summit
    • Ranchito Canyon
    • San Luis Obispo
    • San Miguel
    • San Simeon
    • Santa Margarita
    • Santa Margarita Lake
    • Shandon
    • Shedd Canyon
    • Simmler
    • Tar Spring Ridge
    • Taylor Canyon
    • Templeton
    • Tierra Redonda Mountain
    • Twitchell Dam
    • Wells Ranch
    • Wilson Corner
    • York Mountain

San Mateo County


Santa Barbara County

  • 1°x2°
    • Santa Maria (been through there)
  • 30'x60'
    • Cuyama
    • Laguna Harbor
    • Point Conception
    • Santa Barbara
    • Santa Maria (been through there)
    • Santa Rosa Island
  • 30'x30'
    • Guadalupe
    • Lompoc (been through there)
    • Santa Ynez (been through there)
  • 15'x15'
  • 7.5'x7.5'

Santa Clara County


Santa Cruz County


Shasta County


Sierra County


Siskiyou County


Solano County


Sonoma County


Stanislaus County


Sutter County


Tehama County


Trinity County


Tulare County

  • 30'x60'
    • Mount Whitney (been there)
    • Three Rivers (been there)
    • Visalia (been there)
  • 30'x30'
    • Dinuba
    • Kaweah
    • Mount Whitney (twice)
    • Tobias Peak
  • 15'x15'
    • California Hot Springs
    • Camp Nelson
    • Earlimart
    • Exeter
    • Giant Forest
    • Hockett Peak
    • Kaweah
    • Kern Peak
    • Lamont Peak
    • Mineral King
    • Monache Mountain
    • Mount Whitney (again?)
    • Porterville
    • Springville
    • Terra Bella
    • Triple Divide Peak
    • Tulare
    • Visalia
    • White River
  • 7.5'x7.5'
    • Allensworth
    • Alpaugh
    • Auckland
    • Bonita Meadows
    • Cairns Corner
    • California Hot Springs
    • Camp Nelson
    • Camp Wishon
    • Casa Viejo Meadows
    • Case Mountain
    • Chagoopa Falls
    • Chickencoop Canyon
    • Cirque Peak
    • Crag Peak
    • Dennison Peak
    • Ducor
    • Durrwood Creek
    • Exeter
    • Fairview
    • Frazier Valley
    • Fountain Springs
    • General Grant Grove
    • Giant Forest
    • Gibbon Peak
    • Goshien
    • Globe
    • Haiwee Pass
    • Hockett Peak
    • Ivanhoe
    • Kaweah
    • Kern Lake
    • Kern Peak
    • Johnson Peak
    • Johnsondale
    • Lamont Peak
    • Lindsay
    • Lodgepole
    • Long Canyon
    • Mineral King
    • Monache Mountain
    • Monson
    • Mount Brewer
    • Mount Kaweah
    • Mount Silliman
    • Mount Whitney (that keeps coming up)
    • Moses Mountain
    • Muir Grove
    • Paige
    • Pixley
    • Porterville
    • Posey
    • Quincy School
    • Quinn Peak
    • Rockhouse Basin
    • Rocky Hill
    • Richgrove
    • Sacatar Canyon
    • Sausalito School
    • Sentinel Peak
    • Shadequarter Mountain
    • Silver City
    • Sirretta Peak
    • Solo Peak
    • Sphinx Lakes
    • Springville
    • Stokes Mountain
    • Success Dam
    • Taylor Weir
    • Templeton Mountain
    • Tipton
    • Tobias Peak
    • Traveler
    • Tucker Mountain
    • Tulare
    • Visalia
    • Waukena
    • White Dome
    • White River
    • Woodlake
    • Woodville

Tuolumne County

  • 30'x60'
    • Oakdale
    • San Andres
  • 30'x30'
    • Big Trees
    • Dardanelles
    • Sonora
    • Yosemite
  • 15'x15'
    • Columbia
    • Hetch Hetchy Reservoir
    • Lake Eleanor
    • Long Barn
    • Pinecrest
    • Sonora
    • Tuolumne
  • 7.5'x7.5'
    • Ackerson Mountain
    • Ascension Mountain
    • Boards Crossing
    • Cherry Lake: north and south
    • Chinese Camp
    • Columbia: +SE
    • Cooper Peak
    • Crandall Peak
    • Dardanelle
    • Donnell Lake
    • Duckwall Mountain
    • Emigrant Lake
    • Falls Ridge
    • Groveland
    • Hetch Hetchy Reservoir
    • Hull Creek
    • Jawbone Ridge
    • Keystone
    • Kibbie Lake
    • Lake Eleanor
    • Liberty Hill
    • Matterhorn Peak
    • Moccasin
    • Mount Dana
    • New Melones Dam
    • Pinecrest
    • Sonora
    • Spicer Meadow Reservoir
    • Standard
    • Stanislaus
    • Strawberry
    • Ten Lakes
    • Tiltill Mountain
    • Tioga Pass
    • Tuolomne
    • Twain Harte
    • Piute Mountain

Ventura County


Yolo County


Yuba County



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