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Del Sur, California

31 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the North Antelope Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93536. The Survey maps it on the Del Sur quadrangle.

Del Sur within Los Angeles County

Then and now

1915 to 1995

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Del Sur, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Del Sur, surveyed 1915

Compare 1915 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 31 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

234 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 234 fires within 5 miles of Del Sur between 1996 and 2020, burning about 2,949 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 24 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/undetermined143
Equipment and vehicle use27
Arson/incendiarism24
Misuse of fire by a minor15
Debris and open burning8
Smoking7
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Natural3
Fireworks1
Other causes1
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
9 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresLos Angeles County Fire Departmentnot named
9 September 1997Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreAngeles National ForestMATCHES
7 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresAngeles National ForestCOPPERMILL
6 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
6 September 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
6 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
6 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
6 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Los Angeles County

Storms near this place

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Del Sur in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2015: 2 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2015Flash FloodDel Sur-Strong thunderstorms generated flash flooding across the Antelope Valley. At the intersection of 90th Street West and West Avenue I, a car was stuck in flood waters.
August 2013Flash FloodDel Sur-Trained spotters reported widespread flash flooding across the communities of Quartz Hill and Leona Valley. The area around 60th Street and Quartz Hill High School experienced flash flooding as well as the area around 90th Street West and Elizabeth Lake Road in Leona Valley.

Every storm recorded in Los Angeles 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
Antelope Acres4.5 miles30
Quartz Hill4.8 miles30
Leona Valley4.9 miles30
Andrade Corner5.5 miles29
Rancho Vista6.0 miles29
Lincoln Crest7.1 miles29
Fairmont7.9 miles31
Lancaster8.1 miles29

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 Del SurAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3474907The 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 270824. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.