BlockBuckhorn, California
29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Fillmore census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93015. It stands on Real Wash. The Survey maps it on the Piru quadrangle. It stands 604 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1900 to 1995The same ground, surveyed 95 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Compare 1900 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 29 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1900 USGS Piru quadrangle1:62500
- 1903 USGS Camulos quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1921 USGS Piru quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1941 USGS Piru quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1952 USGS Piru quadrangle1:24000, 7 printings
- 1955 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1966 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000
- 1975 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1979 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:100000
- 1995 USGS Piru quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
14 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Buckhorn between 1994 and 2020, burning about 45,321 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/undetermined | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 September 2009 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 17,463 acres | Central California District | GUIBERSON |
| 21 September 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Angeles National Forest | MULTIPLE |
| 20 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 27 acres | Hopper Mountain National Wildlife Refuge | SANCTUARY |
| 5 August 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | 24,800 acres | Central California District | HOPPER |
| 17 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,151 acres | Ventura County Fire Department | HOLSER |
| 8 July 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 18 June 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 62 acres | Ventura County Fire Department | not named |
| 18 June 1994 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | San Bernardino National Forest | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Buckhorn: 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cic Prospect | Gold | Prospect | ||
| Strathern Cattle Co. | Uranium | Occurrence |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Piru | 1.5 miles | 33 | |
| Cavin | 1.8 miles | 29 | |
| Camulos | 3.1 miles | 33 | |
| Fillmore | 5.4 miles | 29 | |
| North Fillmore | 6.3 miles | 29 | |
| Brownstone (historical) | 6.3 miles | 29 | |
| Bardsdale | 6.5 miles | 26 | |
| Sespe | 7.1 miles | 29 |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Buckhorn | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4983151 | The 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 1660388. 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.