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Bakersfield Country Club, California

34 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Bakersfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93306. The Survey maps it on the Oil Center quadrangle.

Bakersfield Country Club within Kern County

Then and now

1906 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bakersfield Country Club, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Bakersfield Country Club, surveyed 1906

Compare 1906 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 34 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

696 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 696 fires within 5 miles of Bakersfield Country Club between 1992 and 2020, burning about 20,844 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 130 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/undetermined460
Arson/incendiarism130
Equipment and vehicle use45
Misuse of fire by a minor35
Smoking11
Debris and open burning9
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Recreation and ceremony1
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
9 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKern County Fire Departmentnot named
9 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKern County Fire Departmentnot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKern County Fire Departmentnot named
8 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 September 2009Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kern County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Bakersfield Country Club: 7 past producers, 4 producers, 1 occurrence. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Silver, Gold, Silver. 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
C and H Materials CoGold, SilverPast Producer
China Grade FlatsGold, SilverPast Producer
Griffith Construction Co. PitSand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, SilverPast Producer
River Rock Co. PitSand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, SilverPast Producer
Ebers and Heaps PropertyGoldProducer
Klondike GroupGoldProducer
Pasadena MineGoldProducer
Bluff Site PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hartman Fox PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Kern 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
Hillcrest0.9 miles34
East Niles1.1 miles34
Magunden1.7 miles29
East Bakersfield1.8 miles34
Potomac Park1.8 miles29
Kern2.1 miles34
Algoso2.2 miles29
Oil City2.8 miles34

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2804179. 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.