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Bern, California

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Paso Robles census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93446. It lies near Mason Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Estrella quadrangle. It stands 840 feet above sea level.

Bern within San Luis Obispo County

Then and now

1919 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 70 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bern, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Bern, surveyed 1919

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 27 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

222 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 222 fires within 5 miles of Bern between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,480 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined98
Equipment and vehicle use81
Debris and open burning25
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Arson/incendiarism5
Natural2
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2002Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresSan Luis Obispo UnitCASLU 005401
7 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSan Luis Obispo UnitGENESEO 2
7 September 1992Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresSan Luis Obispo UnitSLU 2851
6 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Luis Obispo UnitGENESEO
6 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresSan Luis Obispo UnitGENESEO
5 September 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Luis Obispo UnitBRANCH
5 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.7 acresSan Luis Obispo UnitHOG
5 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSan Luis Obispo UnitESTRELLA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Luis Obispo 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
Whitley Gardens2.7 miles27
Union3.7 miles27
Estrella3.9 miles27
Wellsona8.2 miles27
Linne8.2 miles25
Oak Park8.5 miles27
San Lawrence Terrace8.6 miles27
Capital Hill8.6 miles27

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 Q4892744The 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 1667662. 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.