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Bartlett, California

30 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Lone Pine census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93549. It stands on Carroll Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bartlett quadrangle. It stands 3,619 feet above sea level.

Bartlett within Inyo County

Then and now

1905 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bartlett, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Bartlett, surveyed 1905

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

7 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Bartlett between 1997 and 2018, burning about 4 acres in total. 4 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
Natural4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning1

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 1998Naturalunder an acreInyo National ForestTIM
8 September 1997Natural1.0 acresInyo National ForestFALLS
18 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionHWY 395 /E LUBKEN AV
24 August 1999Naturalunder an acreInyo National ForestCOTTONWOOD
18 August 2013Natural2.0 acresInyo National ForestCOTTONWOOD 2
31 July 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreCentral California DistrictASH
23 May 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCentral California DistrictHORSESHOE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Inyo County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Bartlett: 2 producers, 1 past producer, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Gold. 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
Inyo Marble QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
Unnamed ProspectGoldUnknown
Cottonwood Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Materials Site #276Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Inyo County

Storms near this place

3 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bartlett in 3 storm reports between 2022 and 2025: 2 flash flood, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2023Flash FloodBartlett$2,000Highway 395 flooded both in Lone Pine and at Boulder Creek 4 miles SSE of Lone Pine.
July 2022Flash FloodBartlett$2,000Water and debris flowed over Horseshoe Meadows Rd.
November 2025FloodBartlett$100There was minor flooding of Highway 395 at Rio Tinto.

Every storm recorded in Inyo 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
Mock6.9 miles28
Dolomite7.0 miles28
Alabama Hills7.0 miles34
Alico7.4 miles28
Swansea7.5 miles28
Keeler8.4 miles27
Lone Pine9.1 miles34
Cartago10.8 miles29

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 Q4865377The 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 1660314. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.