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Burness, California

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Fresno census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93737. It stands on Dog Creek. The Survey maps it on the Clovis quadrangle. It stands 348 feet above sea level.

Burness within Fresno County

Then and now

1923 to 1982

The same ground, surveyed 59 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Burness, surveyed 1982
Topographic sheet of Burness, surveyed 1923

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 22 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

693 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 693 fires within 5 miles of Burness between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,389 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 70 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/undetermined369
Equipment and vehicle use112
Debris and open burning76
Arson/incendiarism70
Misuse of fire by a minor37
Smoking17
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural1

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 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
8 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionDEL REY
8 September 2011Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFresno-Kings UnitWILLOW
8 September 2009Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitPOWER
8 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFresno-Kings UnitFKU 11182
8 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFresno-Kings UnitFKU 11600
7 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFresno-Kings Unitnot named
7 September 2018Smokingunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionE NATIONAL AVE FRESNO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fresno 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
Fort Camp (historical)0.8 miles22
Bronge (historical)1.3 miles22
Las Palmas2.3 miles22
Vanris (historical)2.3 miles22
Cameo2.4 miles22
Sunnyside2.4 miles20
Tarpey2.7 miles22
Locans2.9 miles20

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 BurnessAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4999654The 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 1655855. 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.