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Arrowhead Junction, California

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Needles census division. The Survey maps it on the Bannock quadrangle. It stands 1,654 feet above sea level.

Arrowhead Junction within San Bernardino County

Then and now

1943 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 42 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Arrowhead Junction, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Arrowhead Junction, surveyed 1943

Compare 1943 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

7 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Arrowhead Junction between 1992 and 2011, burning about 2 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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
Equipment and vehicle use3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
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
6 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictGOFFS
17 July 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictWATERS
13 July 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMojave National PreserveBLM AST#20
10 July 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictIBIS
28 June 1992Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresSan Bernardino UnitKLINEFELTER
16 May 1993Naturalunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictNEEDLES
27 March 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictTENNESSEE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Bernardino County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Arrowhead Junction: 6 prospects, 3 occurrences, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Gold, Copper, Gold, Silver, Fluorine-Fluorite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Chuckwalla Wash ProspectCopper, Gold, SilverProspectBarite, Bornite, Covellite, Gold
Unnamed ProspectCopper, Fluorine-FluoriteProspect
Minnie GoldGold, CopperPast ProducerSurface/Underground
Minnie GoldGold, CopperPast Producer
Black MountainCopperOccurrence
Gold ButteCopperProspect
Hidden TreasureCopperOccurrenceChalcopyrite, Pyrite
Hidden TreasureCopperProspect
MoonlightCopperOccurrence
MoonlightCopperProspect

Every working recorded in San Bernardino 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
Ibis1.7 miles14
Bannock2.1 miles14
Klinefelter4.2 miles14
Homer6.2 miles14
Java6.4 miles23
Goffs12.7 miles18
Needles12.9 miles25
Fort Piute (historical)14.6 miles31

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.

Wikidata item Q17143837The 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 252845. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.