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Greenacres, California

33 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Rosedale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93312. The Survey maps it on the Oildale quadrangle. 5,496 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 381 feet above sea level.

Greenacres within Kern County

Then and now

1906 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Greenacres, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Greenacres, surveyed 1906

Compare 1906 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Greenacres fell from 5,566 to 5,496 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
20105,566
20205,496-70 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 33 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

253 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 253 fires within 5 miles of Greenacres between 1996 and 2020, burning about 443 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 31 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/undetermined159
Arson/incendiarism31
Equipment and vehicle use26
Misuse of fire by a minor19
Debris and open burning8
Smoking7
Natural2
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
8 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKern County Fire Departmentnot named
6 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
27 September 2005Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
24 September 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
21 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
19 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKern County Fire Departmentnot named
18 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKern County Fire Departmentnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kern County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Greenacres: 6 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica. 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
Kern River PitSilicaPast Producer
Caulay PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kern River Commun Use PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kern River PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Webster Sand Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

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
Fruitvale1.4 miles33
Rosedale1.9 miles27
Jastro2.0 miles33
Quailwood2.4 miles27
Landco2.6 miles33
Kern City2.8 miles27
Olde Stockdale3.2 miles27
Oil Junction3.8 miles33

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 GreenacresAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3498404The 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 1652714. 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.