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Coso, California

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Lone Pine census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93549. It lies near Red Hill. The Survey maps it on the Little Lake quadrangle. It stands 3,369 feet above sea level.

Coso within Inyo County

Then and now

1915 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Coso, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Coso, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 23 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

59 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Coso between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,992 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 32 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
Arson/incendiarism32
Equipment and vehicle use11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Natural3
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Firearms and explosives use1

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
29 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTule River Fire DepartmentTRAILER
15 September 2003Firearms and explosives use412 acresCentral California DistrictMICHAELS
14 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.5 acresCalifornia Desert DistrictCINDER
1 September 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictLITTLE
9 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictCOSO
5 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictLITTLE LAKE
27 August 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTule River Fire DepartmentPAINTED
26 August 1999Naturalunder an acreCentral California DistrictDEER

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 Coso: 2 prospects, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Tungsten, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Red Hill Cinder PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed ProspectSand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect
FeldmanTungstenOccurrenceScheelite
Feldman Tungsten MineTungstenProspect

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
Little Lake3.1 miles23
Sykes4.3 miles28
Coso Junction4.7 miles28
Dunmovin7.8 miles28
Talus7.8 miles28
Linnie10.6 miles23
Haiwee11.9 miles28
Pearsonville12.0 miles23

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 CosoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5174657The 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 1660516. 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.