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  "schemaVersion": "map-evidence/1",
  "generator": "scripts/maps/guides.py (map-evidence/1)",
  "reviewStatus": "supported",
  "checkedAt": "2026-10-31T09:24:54Z",
  "slug": "carson",
  "name": "Carson",
  "url": "https://elsegundo.xyz/maps/carson/",
  "kind": "illustrated humor map",
  "isPhotograph": false,
  "spatialSummary": "Illustrative north-up groupings, not surveyed neighborhoods. SouthBay Pavilion is drawn north of I-405, following the broad relationship visible in the city’s Route B map. The university’s sports grounds are grouped west of the academic campus, following the campus map’s orientation. The labeled Dignity Health Sports Park region represents the sports complex; it is not a main-stadium footprint. Operator listings identify the blimp base, university/sports park, City Hall, Adobe and refinery. The Adobe’s Rancho Dominguez mailing address is not evidence of a municipal boundary.",
  "captions": [
    {
      "label": "Rancho Dominguez",
      "caption": "Home of the Dominguez Rancho Adobe"
    },
    {
      "label": "The Blimp Base",
      "caption": "Wingfoot Three. A very large conversation starter."
    },
    {
      "label": "North Carson",
      "caption": "Big sky. Tiny map."
    },
    {
      "label": "Cal State Dominguez Hills",
      "caption": ""
    },
    {
      "label": "Dignity Health Sports Park",
      "caption": "The Galaxy’s home. Big match energy."
    },
    {
      "label": "The 405",
      "caption": ""
    },
    {
      "label": "Civic Center",
      "caption": "A young city: incorporated 1968"
    },
    {
      "label": "SouthBay Pavilion",
      "caption": "The old Carson Mall, Avalon at the 405"
    },
    {
      "label": "The East Side",
      "caption": "A whole side of the story."
    },
    {
      "label": "The Refinery",
      "caption": "Industrial shapes. Tiny map labels."
    },
    {
      "label": "South Carson",
      "caption": "Almost off the bottom of the page."
    },
    {
      "label": "Wilmington",
      "caption": "The next map"
    },
    {
      "label": "Torrance / Harbor Gateway",
      "caption": ""
    },
    {
      "label": "Long Beach",
      "caption": ""
    },
    {
      "label": "Regions of Carson",
      "caption": ""
    },
    {
      "label": "Incorporated 1968. Borders approximate. Look up, then look around.",
      "caption": ""
    },
    {
      "label": "Illustration: Claude. Corrections: ChatGPT. Corrected Oct 31, 2026. Review recorded in source notes.",
      "caption": ""
    },
    {
      "label": "Captions, sources and checked dates: elsegundo.xyz/maps/carson/",
      "caption": ""
    }
  ],
  "claims": [
    {
      "text": "Carson incorporated in 1968; the city history gives February 20, 1968.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "carson-incorporation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "text": "Carson City Hall is listed at 701 East Carson Street, supporting the Civic Center grouping.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "carson-city-hall"
      ]
    },
    {
      "text": "The Dominguez Rancho Adobe Museum lists its location as Rancho Dominguez; no city-line claim is made.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "carson-adobe"
      ]
    },
    {
      "text": "Goodyear identifies its Carson base and Wingfoot Three in the current-fleet description. This identifies the base aircraft and does not promise a sighting or visitor access.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "carson-blimp-base",
        "carson-wingfoot-three"
      ]
    },
    {
      "text": "Dignity Health Sports Park is home to the LA Galaxy and is on the CSUDH campus in Carson.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "carson-galaxy",
        "carson-stadium-campus"
      ]
    },
    {
      "text": "Visual interpretation of the university map (PDF page 1): the labeled soccer grounds are west of the main academic buildings. The schematic preserves this broad relationship; this source alone does not locate the main LA Galaxy stadium footprint.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "carson-campus-map"
      ],
      "visualInterpretation": true
    },
    {
      "text": "Visual interpretation of the city’s Route B map (PDF page 1): the SB Pavilion label sits on Avalon north of its I-405 crossing. This is a stable-place/road comparison, not a statement about current bus routing.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "carson-pavilion-position"
      ],
      "visualInterpretation": true
    },
    {
      "text": "A city redevelopment plan adopted in 2000 identifies Carson Mall as the earlier name of South Bay Pavilion.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "carson-pavilion-history"
      ]
    },
    {
      "text": "Marathon identifies a Carson facility of its Los Angeles Refinery at East 223rd Street. No employer ranking is supported.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "carson-refinery"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "carson-incorporation",
      "url": "https://ci.carson.ca.us/aboutcarson/AboutCarson.aspx",
      "publisher": "City of Carson",
      "publishedAt": null,
      "fetchedAt": "2026-10-31T03:17:26Z",
      "label": "fact",
      "quote": "Incorporated as a general law city on February 20, 1968"
    },
    {
      "id": "carson-city-hall",
      "url": "https://ci.carson.ca.us/aboutcarson/AboutCarson.aspx",
      "publisher": "City of Carson",
      "publishedAt": null,
      "fetchedAt": "2026-10-31T03:17:26Z",
      "label": "fact",
      "quote": "701 East Carson Street"
    },
    {
      "id": "carson-adobe",
      "url": "https://dominguezrancho.org/contact/",
      "publisher": "Dominguez Rancho Adobe Museum",
      "publishedAt": null,
      "fetchedAt": "2026-10-31T03:17:26Z",
      "label": "listing",
      "quote": "18127 South Alameda Street\nRancho Dominguez*, CA 90220 USA"
    },
    {
      "id": "carson-blimp-base",
      "url": "https://www.goodyear.com/en-us/blimp/information/current-blimps",
      "publisher": "Goodyear",
      "publishedAt": null,
      "fetchedAt": "2026-10-31T03:13:28.977355Z",
      "label": "listing",
      "quote": "Carson - California Base"
    },
    {
      "id": "carson-wingfoot-three",
      "url": "https://www.goodyear.com/en-us/blimp/information/current-blimps",
      "publisher": "Goodyear",
      "publishedAt": null,
      "fetchedAt": "2026-10-31T03:13:28.977355Z",
      "label": "listing",
      "quote": "with the current Wingfoot Three"
    },
    {
      "id": "carson-galaxy",
      "url": "https://www.dignityhealthsportspark.com/about/about-us",
      "publisher": "Dignity Health Sports Park",
      "publishedAt": null,
      "fetchedAt": "2026-10-31T03:17:26Z",
      "label": "listing",
      "quote": "home of Major League Soccer’s LA Galaxy"
    },
    {
      "id": "carson-stadium-campus",
      "url": "https://www.dignityhealthsportspark.com/about/about-us",
      "publisher": "Dignity Health Sports Park",
      "publishedAt": null,
      "fetchedAt": "2026-10-31T03:17:26Z",
      "label": "listing",
      "quote": "located on the campus of California State University, Dominguez Hills in Carson, California."
    },
    {
      "id": "carson-campus-map",
      "url": "https://www.csudh.edu/Assets/csudh-sites/campus-map-direction/docs/CSUDH-Campus-Map_v202608-web.pdf",
      "publisher": "California State University, Dominguez Hills",
      "publishedAt": null,
      "fetchedAt": "2026-10-31T03:13:26.431600Z",
      "label": "fact",
      "quote": "SOCCER FIELDS",
      "sourceLocation": "PDF page 1 (the only page): SOCCER FIELDS label, UNIVERSITY DRIVE and VICTORIA STREET labels, and upward north arrow.",
      "evidenceNote": "Visual interpretation of the map: the labeled sports grounds are west of the academic building cluster. The main LA Galaxy stadium footprint is not clearly shown. “Updated 08/2026” is a printed update month, not a known publication day.",
      "verifiedAt": "2026-10-31T03:42:52Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "carson-pavilion-position",
      "url": "https://ci.carson.ca.us/content/files/pdfs/transportation/RouteB%20-%20CarsonCircuit.pdf",
      "publisher": "City of Carson",
      "publishedAt": null,
      "fetchedAt": "2026-10-31T03:13:27.424030Z",
      "label": "fact",
      "quote": "SB Pavilion",
      "sourceLocation": "PDF page 1 (the only page): SB Pavilion label on Avalon above the I-405 crossing, with the north arrow.",
      "evidenceNote": "Visual interpretation of the named-place and road relationship. The printed August 2, 2021 timestamp is an export date; publication date and current bus service are not established.",
      "verifiedAt": "2026-10-31T03:42:52Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "carson-pavilion-history",
      "url": "https://ci.carson.ca.us/content/files/pdfs/redevelopment/Implement_Plans/PA1_MAPA/PA1_MAPA_IMPLEMENT_PLAN.htm",
      "publisher": "Carson Redevelopment Agency",
      "publishedAt": null,
      "fetchedAt": "2026-10-31T03:18:02Z",
      "label": "fact",
      "quote": "Carson Mall and Radisson Hotel (now South Bay Pavilion and Hilton Hotel, respectively)",
      "adoptedAt": "2000-08-01",
      "sourceLocation": "Municipal document heading marked Adopted; document text names Carson Mall and its later South Bay Pavilion name.",
      "evidenceNote": "August 1, 2000 is the municipal document adoption date, not a verified publication date. The historical naming statement does not establish current mall operations."
    },
    {
      "id": "carson-refinery",
      "url": "https://www.marathonpetroleum.com/Operations/Refining/Los-Angeles-Refinery/",
      "publisher": "Marathon Petroleum",
      "publishedAt": null,
      "fetchedAt": "2026-10-31T03:17:26Z",
      "label": "listing",
      "quote": "Carson: 2350 East 223rd Street, Carson, CA 90810"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "draftedBy": [
      "Claude (Anthropic)"
    ],
    "revisedBy": [
      "ChatGPT/Codex (OpenAI)"
    ],
    "checkedBy": [
      "GPT-6 Astra (OpenAI)",
      "ChatGPT/Codex (OpenAI; independent geometry review)"
    ],
    "approvedBy": "Michael Hoydich",
    "scope": "The thirteen authorized city-map corrections; original map releases remain in history.",
    "approvedAt": "2026-10-31T09:11:26Z",
    "reviewVerdict": "supported",
    "checkedAt": "2026-10-31T09:24:54Z",
    "reviewScope": "Technical source-guide, accessible-transcript and schematic-layout checks. Independent source authentication sampled primary pages and retained official GIS/map records; it did not re-authenticate every source or establish surveyed boundaries or current visitor access."
  },
  "corrections": [
    "Corrected October 31, 2026 (Los Angeles): Moved the sports-complex grouping west of the academic campus and SouthBay Pavilion north of I-405. Removed the unsupported largest-employer ranking and clarified that the sports grouping is not a stadium footprint.",
    "Added a complete readable transcript, source excerpts with actual fetch dates, and a schematic-layout explanation. Sources do not establish current visitor access, hours or availability."
  ],
  "correctionDate": "2026-10-31",
  "correctionSummary": "Moved the sports-complex grouping west of the academic campus and SouthBay Pavilion north of I-405. Removed the unsupported largest-employer ranking and clarified that the sports grouping is not a stadium footprint."
}