Glennville, California
23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Lake Isabella census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93226. It stands on Angel Creek. The Survey maps it on the Glennville quadrangle. 158 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,176 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1920 to 1978The same ground, surveyed 58 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
13 surveys from 23 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1920 USGS Delonagha quadrangle1:62500
- 1926 USGS Glennville quadrangle1:62500
- 1936 USGS Tobias Peak quadrangle1:125000
- 1943 USGS Tobias Peak quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Glennville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1966 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Glennville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Isabella Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
25 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Glennville between 1993 and 2018, burning about 1,160 acres in total. 3 started naturally. None was 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 | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Other causes | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 August 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Sequoia National Forest | FULTON |
| 28 August 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Kern County Fire Department | not named |
| 27 August 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 304 acres | Central California District | HAVILAH 2 |
| 27 August 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | 16 acres | Sequoia National Forest | BAILEY |
| 22 August 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Kern County Fire Department | not named |
| 21 August 2013 | Natural | 21 acres | Kern County Fire Department | not named |
| 19 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 203 acres | Kern County Fire Department | GRANITE |
| 18 August 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Central California District | CANAL |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Glennville: 3 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Tungsten, Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wattenbarger Prospect | Uranium | Prospect | ||
| Tungstore | Tungsten | Past Producer | Scheelite | |
| Wible | Tungsten | Past Producer | ||
| Wible | Tungsten | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
7 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glennville in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 4 heavy rain, 2 flood, 1 debris flow. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2023 | Flood | Glennville | - | California Highway Patrol reported SR 155 closed due to flooding between Woody and Glennville. |
| March 2019 | Debris Flow | Glennville | - | California Highway Patrol reported State Route 155 and Granite Rd. in Glennville closed due to a mudslide and rock slide in the area. |
| January 2017 | Flood | Glennville | - | California Higway Patrol reported State Route 155 is closed between 5.5 miles east of Glennville to Greenhorn Summit due to flooding on highway. |
| February 2014 | Heavy Rain | Glennville | - | Heavy rain with 0.66 inches. |
| March 2014 | Heavy Rain | Glennville | - | Trained spotter reported heavy rainfall. |
| January 2014 | Heavy Rain | Glennville | - | Twenty four hour spotter rainfall in Glennville of 1.0 inch. |
| June 1998 | Heavy Rain | Glennville | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woody | 7.1 miles | 23 | |
| Lackey Place | 7.3 miles | 23 | |
| Pettit Place | 7.7 miles | 25 | |
| Shirley Meadows | 7.9 miles | 25 | |
| Alta Sierra | 8.2 miles | 25 | |
| Petersburg (historical) | 10.2 miles | 24 | |
| Keyesville | 12.4 miles | 25 | |
| Wofford Heights | 13.2 miles | 28 |
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 Glennville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5569227 | 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 271314. 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.












