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Frazier Park, California

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the West Kern census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93225. It lies near Cold Springs Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Frazier Mountain quadrangle. 2,592 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,639 feet above sea level.

Frazier Park within Kern County

Then and now

1903 to 1995

The same ground, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Frazier Park, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Frazier Park, surveyed 1903

Compare 1903 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Frazier Park fell from 2,691 to 2,592 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
20102,691
20202,592-99 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 27 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

138 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 138 fires within 5 miles of Frazier Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 12,853 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 10 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/undetermined56
Natural20
Equipment and vehicle use19
Misuse of fire by a minor15
Arson/incendiarism10
Recreation and ceremony7
Fireworks3
Smoking3
Other causes2
Debris and open burning2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2015Naturalunder an acreLos Padres National ForestFRAIZER 1
4 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.3 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
3 September 2005Arson/incendiarism2,500 acresLos Padres National ForestGORMAN
25 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
24 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKern County Fire Departmentnot named
24 September 2011Naturalunder an acreLos Padres National ForestGOODLUCK
24 September 1999Naturalunder an acreLos Padres National ForestFRAZIER
23 September 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreLos Padres National ForestPINION

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kern County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 27 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of Frazier Park: 17 prospects, 7 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Limestone, General, Clay, 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
Cuddy Canyon ProspectBoron-BoratesProspect
Cuddy CreekSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Frazier PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
General Portland Inc.Limestone, General, ClayProducer
No. 5 AmendedClayProspect
Lebec DepositLimestone, GeneralOccurrence
Sand Springs Canyon DepositLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
Tecuya DepositLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
White Ridge DepositLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
Arastra Flat Group of ClaimsGoldProspect

Every working recorded in Kern County

Storms near this place

19 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Frazier Park in 19 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 9 flash flood, 4 debris flow, 3 flood, 2 heavy rain. 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 2005Flash FloodFrazier Park$75,000no account filed
July 2013Flash FloodFrazier Park$50,000A flash flood occurred in Pine Mountain club with 6 inches of fast flowing water over Pine Mtn Highway.
January 2008Flash FloodFrazier Park$25,000California Highway Patrol and local Emergency Management reported several mudslides on the Frazier Mountain Park Road. This flash flood event was caused by locally heavy rainfall combined with rapid snowmelt from recent heavy snow events.
May 2025FloodFrazier Park-Minor flooding on Mil Potrero Highway in Pine Mountain Club.
March 2023FloodFrazier Park-California Highway Patrol reported Mil Portero Highway was closed at Cuddy Valley Rd. due to flooding.
August 2023Flash FloodFrazier Park-California Highway Patrol reported flooding causing erosion and running over the roadway at the intersection of Elm Trail and Mount Pinos Way in Frazier Park.
December 2022Debris FlowFrazier Park-California Highway Patrol reported a tree in the roadway near Cuddy Valley.
March 2020Debris FlowFrazier Park-California Highway Patrol reported mud covering the road on Mount Pinos Way near Johnson Rd. in the eastern portion of Frazier Park.
March 2020Debris FlowFrazier Park-California Highway Patrol reported mud, dirt and rock on the intersection of Frazier Mountain Park Road and Mount Pinos Way.
March 2020Heavy RainFrazier Park-A trained spotter in Frazier Park measured 1.40 inches of rainfall in two hours. 2.40 inches in total fell on March 10. Two other stations in Frazier Park measured 2.88 inches and 1.95 inches of rain on March 10.
August 2020Flash FloodFrazier Park-A spotter reported flash flooding from a slow moving thunderstorm which made roads impassible in Pine Mountain Club. A nearby Acurite 5 in 1 weather station reported 1.95 inches of rain in one hour.
January 2018Debris FlowFrazier Park-Public report of mudslide closing the intersection of Cuddy Valley Rd. and Mil Portero Hwy 8W Frazier Park.
February 2017FloodFrazier Park-California Highway Patrol reported road flooding at the intersection of Pine Road and Lockwood Valley Road near Lake of the Woods.
July 2017Flash FloodFrazier Park-Photos posted on Facebook of moving water in the Pine Mountain Club.
July 2015Flash FloodFrazier Park-Debris flow from over one inch of rain in less than a hour over the Grand Fire burn scar area produced mud blocking the road between Frazier Park and Lake of the Woods.
July 2015Flash FloodFrazier Park-California Highway Patrol reported flooding and buckling of the roadway along Mil Potrero Highway and Cerro Noroeste Road at 20:44 PDT. They also reported vechiles getting stuck along Lockwood Valley Road and Frazier Mountain Road at 21:18 PDT. However, the main event continued to be the mudslide occurring near the town of Frazier Park.
October 2010HailFrazier Park-The fire department reported 1 inch hail, which is the size of quarters, in the town of Lebec.
July 2009Heavy RainFrazier Park-A trained weather spotter at Pine Mountain Club reported heavy rainfall of about one inch.
July 2001Flash FloodFrazier Park-The Kern County Fire Department at Pine Mountain reported 2.20" rain occurred in 15 minutes ending at 1345 PST in 15 minutes and 1.17" rain fell in less than 1 hr at Pine Mountain Club rain gauge 1.5 miles to the west. Water over 1 foot deep was reported over most town streets. Radar precipitation estimates gave 1.5-2.0" on the One-Hour-Precipitation product.

Every storm 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
Lake of the Woods2.8 miles27
Lebec4.4 miles25
Tejon Ranch4.6 miles27
Pinon Pines Estates5.2 miles29
Grapevine8.2 miles25
Pine Mountain Club11.0 miles26
Wheeler Ridge12.5 miles26
Mettler16.7 miles26

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 Frazier ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q937672The 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 1656523. 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.

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.