Balance Rock, California

The same ground, surveyed 50 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1936 1986

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.

• 1936 USGS Tobias Peak quadrangle1:125000
• 1943 USGS Tobias Peak quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1945 USGS Tobias Peak quadrangle1:62500
• 1948 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1955 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS California Hot Springs quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1960 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1966 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000
• 1978 USGS Isabella Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1986 USGS Posey quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Balance Rock between 1992 and 2020, burning about 162 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 1 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Panorama Heights
• Pleasant View
• Poso Park
• Sugarloaf Village
• Guernsey Mill
• Spear Creek Summer Home Tract

Every fire recorded in Tulare County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Balance Rock: 6 past producers, 3 occurrences, 2 prospects, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Tungsten, Uranium, Molybdenum, Copper, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Tulare County

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

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1660292. 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.