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Antelope Acres, California

30 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the North Antelope Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93536. The Survey maps it on the Little Buttes quadrangle. It stands 2,425 feet above sea level.

Antelope Acres within Los Angeles County

Then and now

1915 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 66 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Antelope Acres, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Antelope Acres, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 30 printed sheets

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.

Fires near this place

130 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 130 fires within 5 miles of Antelope Acres between 2005 and 2020, burning about 702 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined79
Equipment and vehicle use18
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Smoking9
Debris and open burning8
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.2 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
6 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
6 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
21 September 2009Smokingunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
17 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreLos Angeles County Fire Departmentnot named
1 September 2006Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
8 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
6 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Los Angeles County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Del Sur4.5 miles31
Fairmont7.3 miles31
Oban7.6 miles32
Quartz Hill8.4 miles30
Andrade Corner8.7 miles29
Lancaster9.0 miles29
Leona Valley9.4 miles30
Lake Hughes9.8 miles28

Elsewhere

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.

Wikipedia article on Antelope AcresAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4771155The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 269546. 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.