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Bishop Trail Park, California

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Bishop census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93514. The Survey maps it on the Bishop quadrangle.

Bishop Trail Park within Inyo County

Then and now

1913 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bishop Trail Park, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Bishop Trail Park, surveyed 1913

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 26 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

199 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 199 fires within 5 miles of Bishop Trail Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,768 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 11 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/undetermined92
Equipment and vehicle use37
Recreation and ceremony18
Arson/incendiarism11
Debris and open burning11
Smoking11
Natural10
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
30 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Bernardino UnitHWY 395 / WARM SPRINGS R
3 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Bernardino UnitBISHOP AIRPORT BISHOP_F 4
22 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Bernardino UnitRIVER
20 September 2014Naturalunder an acreSan Bernardino UnitBROCKMAN LN / DIXON LN 3
19 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Bernardino UnitROSSI # 2
19 September 1994Naturalunder an acreSan Bernardino UnitPOLELINE
17 September 1999Naturalunder an acreSan Bernardino UnitDIXON
15 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionHWY 168 / MUMY RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Inyo County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Bishop Trail Park: 10 past producers, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Tungsten, Antimony, Tungsten, 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
Laws Custom MillKaolin, ClayProducer
YaneyTungsten, GoldPast ProducerFerberite
Yaney MineTungsten, GoldPast Producer
Bishop Antimony MineAntimonyProducer
Bishop Antimony MineAntimonyPast Producer
RossiTungstenPast ProducerScheelite
RossiTungstenPast Producer
RossiTungstenPast Producer
Adams PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Brockman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working 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
Bishop0.2 miles26
Sunland (historical)2.2 miles26
Brockmans Corner2.3 miles26
West Bishop3.3 miles26
Poleta3.5 miles26
Oteys Sierra Village3.6 miles26
Laws3.6 miles26
Rocking K4.7 miles26

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 Q122566356The 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 1804566. 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.