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Halcyon, California

30 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Arroyo Grande census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93420. It stands on Los Berros Creek. The Survey maps it on the Oceano quadrangle.

Halcyon within San Luis Obispo County

Then and now

1897 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 84 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Halcyon, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Halcyon, surveyed 1897

On record in Halcyon

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 30 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

433 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 433 fires within 5 miles of Halcyon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,924 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 20 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/undetermined211
Equipment and vehicle use113
Debris and open burning31
Misuse of fire by a minor24
Arson/incendiarism20
Smoking15
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Recreation and ceremony7
Natural4
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
8 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
8 September 2007Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSan Luis Obispo UnitOCEANO DUNES STATE PA 125
8 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Luis Obispo UnitEWING
6 September 2009Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSan Luis Obispo UnitLOS BERROS RD / POMEROY R
5 September 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Luis Obispo UnitSLU 2313
4 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSan Luis Obispo UnitEMS3CDF/
30 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSan Luis Obispo UnitFAIR OAKS AVE AG
30 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Luis Obispo UnitSEVADA LN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Luis Obispo County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Halcyon: 7 past producers, 5 producers, 5 occurrences. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Dimension, 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
Arroyo Grande Creek DepositGypsum-AnhydriteOccurrence
Caen QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer
Newsome Marl DepositCalciumOccurrence
Owen GroupUraniumProducer
Unnamed Diatomite DepositDiatomiteOccurrence
Unnamed Limestone DepositLimestone, GeneralOccurrence
Unnamed Pumice OccurrencePumiceOccurrence
Caen QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Oceano Sand PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in San Luis Obispo 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.

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 HalcyonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2402650The 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 1660712. 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.