Dow, California

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Shafter census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93263. The Survey maps it on the Famoso quadrangle. It stands 427 feet above sea level.

Dow within Kern County

Then and now

1930 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 63 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 20 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.

1930 USGS Famoso quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
1942 USGS Slater quadrangle1:62500
1948 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1950 USGS Famoso quadrangle1:24000
1953 USGS Famoso quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1966 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000
1993 USGS Delano quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

21 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Dow between 1993 and 2020, burning about 361 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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	13
Arson/incendiarism	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3

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
23 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
21 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
2 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
16 August 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
15 August 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
6 July 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
24 July 1993	Arson/incendiarism	320 acres	Central California District	ORANGE
15 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.9 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kern 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Cawelo	0.5 miles	27
Minter Village	0.5 miles	20
Lerdo	1.4 miles	27
Prospero	3.3 miles	27
Slater	3.4 miles	20
Hights Corner	4.5 miles	27
Crome	4.6 miles	27
Shafter	5.3 miles	20

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 Q5302595

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 1653186. 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.