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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.

Glennville within Kern County

Then and now

1920 to 1978

The 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 sheet of Glennville, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of Glennville, surveyed 1920

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

25 since 1993

Regional 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/undetermined7
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes1

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
3 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresSequoia National ForestFULTON
28 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresKern County Fire Departmentnot named
27 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined304 acresCentral California DistrictHAVILAH 2
27 August 1993Equipment and vehicle use16 acresSequoia National ForestBAILEY
22 August 2013Naturalunder an acreKern County Fire Departmentnot named
21 August 2013Natural21 acresKern County Fire Departmentnot named
19 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined203 acresKern County Fire DepartmentGRANITE
18 August 2013Naturalunder an acreCentral California DistrictCANAL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kern County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Wattenbarger ProspectUraniumProspect
TungstoreTungstenPast ProducerScheelite
WibleTungstenPast Producer
WibleTungstenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Kern County

Storms near this place

7 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2023FloodGlennville-California Highway Patrol reported SR 155 closed due to flooding between Woody and Glennville.
March 2019Debris FlowGlennville-California Highway Patrol reported State Route 155 and Granite Rd. in Glennville closed due to a mudslide and rock slide in the area.
January 2017FloodGlennville-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 2014Heavy RainGlennville-Heavy rain with 0.66 inches.
March 2014Heavy RainGlennville-Trained spotter reported heavy rainfall.
January 2014Heavy RainGlennville-Twenty four hour spotter rainfall in Glennville of 1.0 inch.
June 1998Heavy RainGlennville-no account filed

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
Woody7.1 miles23
Lackey Place7.3 miles23
Pettit Place7.7 miles25
Shirley Meadows7.9 miles25
Alta Sierra8.2 miles25
Petersburg (historical)10.2 miles24
Keyesville12.4 miles25
Wofford Heights13.2 miles28

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 GlennvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5569227The 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.