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Gabilan Acres, California

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Salinas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93906. It lies near Crazy Horse Canyon. The Survey maps it on the San Juan Bautista quadrangle. It stands 203 feet above sea level.

Gabilan Acres within Monterey County

Then and now

1915 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Gabilan Acres, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Gabilan Acres, surveyed 1915

Compare 1915 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 25 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

296 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 296 fires within 5 miles of Gabilan Acres between 1992 and 2020, burning about 650 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined145
Equipment and vehicle use62
Arson/incendiarism32
Misuse of fire by a minor22
Debris and open burning20
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes2
Natural1

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 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Benito-Monterey UnitSAN JUAN GRADE RD / CRAZY
4 September 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSan Benito-Monterey UnitVIERRA CANYON RD NORTH_C
4 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
4 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Benito-Monterey UnitCABEU003585
4 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Benito-Monterey UnitPG&E #21
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSan Benito-Monterey UnitSAN JUAN GRADE RD / CRAZY
28 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Benito-Monterey UnitMORRO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monterey County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Gabilan Acres: 6 past producers, 5 prospects, 2 plants, 2 occurrences. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Dolomite, Magnesite. 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
AugustiniStoneProducer
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProspectSedimentary
Spreckles Sugar Co.Limestone, General, Limestone, DimensionPast Producer
Bethlehem Steel CoDolomitePast Producer
Natividad Calcining PlantMagnesitePlant
Natividad Quarry & MillMagnesite, Limestone, GeneralPlant1940, 1942
Sugarloaf DepositLimestone, General, DolomiteOccurrence
AugustiniStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Monterey 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
Bolsa Knolls1.8 miles27
Natividad2.0 miles27
Santa Rita2.9 miles27
Prunedale3.0 miles25
Boronda4.9 miles27
Alisal5.3 miles27
Oak Hills5.4 miles25
Salinas5.7 miles27

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 Gabilan AcresAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5515404The 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 1658595. 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.