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Fellows, California

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the West Kern census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93224. It lies near Hale McLeod Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Fellows quadrangle. 52 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,316 feet above sea level.

Fellows within Kern County

Then and now

1912 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 69 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Fellows, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Fellows, surveyed 1912

On record in Fellows

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Fellows fell from 106 to 52 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010106
202052-54 (-51%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

310 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 310 fires within 5 miles of Fellows between 1992 and 2020, burning about 18,679 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 14 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
Power generation/transmission/distribution115
Missing data/not specified/undetermined89
Equipment and vehicle use60
Arson/incendiarism14
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Natural8
Debris and open burning7
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
Other causes2
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
7 September 1998Power generation/transmission/distribution15 acresCentral California DistrictUNNAMED FIRE 0546
5 September 1993Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreCentral California DistrictMOCAL 2
4 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral California DistrictUNNAMED FIRE 0788
4 September 1999Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreCentral California DistrictUNNAMED FIRE 0114
3 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreKern County Fire Departmentnot named
3 September 2012Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreKern County Fire Departmentnot named
3 September 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCentral California DistrictUNNAMED FIRE 0499
3 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresCentral California DistrictUNNAMED FIRE 0323

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kern County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Fellows: 8 past producers, 3 occurrences, 2 producers, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Uranium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Fullers Earth. 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
Excel PitFullers EarthProducer
Derby Acres PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Fellows Quarry No. 2Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Santa Fe PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Taft QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Gasko GroupUraniumPast Producer
Mitchell PropertyUraniumOccurrence
Owen GroupUraniumPast Producer
Owen GroupUraniumPast Producer
Owen-Mitchell-HillbillyUraniumProducer

Every working 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Warren (historical)1.1 miles23
Midoil1.7 miles23
Wallace Center4.1 miles24
Taft Heights4.7 miles24
Ford City4.8 miles24
Taft5.1 miles24
South Taft5.4 miles24
Derby Acres5.5 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 FellowsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2360577The 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 1656513. 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.