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Halloran Springs, California

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Newberry Springs-Baker census division. It lies in ZIP code area 92309. It stands on Bull Spring Wash. The Survey maps it on the Halloran Springs quadrangle. It stands 2,986 feet above sea level.

Halloran Springs within San Bernardino County

Then and now

1910 to 1985

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 Halloran Springs, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Halloran Springs, surveyed 1910

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 28 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

70 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Halloran Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 39 acres in total. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Smoking2
Other causes1
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
5 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use14 acresMojave National PreserveBULL
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictPAPER
28 September 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictGRAIN
27 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictEGG
26 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictHALLORAN 5
25 September 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictCAR
22 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictLYONS
16 September 1999Naturalunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictNPSASISST8

Every fire recorded in San Bernardino County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 73 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 73 workings within 5 miles of Halloran Springs: 50 prospects, 11 past producers, 8 occurrences, 2 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Copper, Gemstone. 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
Halloran SpringsCopper, SilverOccurrenceMalachite
Hillside No. 1Gold, Copper, Lead, SilverPast Producer
Lucky Belle GroupUraniumOccurrence
Squaw T Placers ClaimsIron, TitaniumOccurrence
St. ChristopherGold, Antimony, Copper, Lead, Molybdenum, Silver, ZincProspect
Turkoiz ProspectCopper, Molybdenum, SilverProspect
Unnamed ProspectLead, Gold, ZincProspect
Unnamed ProspectSilver, Lead, ZincProspect
Unnamed ProspectTungstenProspect
Unnamed ProspectZincProspect

Every working recorded in San Bernardino 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
Yucca Grove5.6 miles28
Valley Wells Station10.9 miles27
Baker12.2 miles21
Talc (historical)14.4 miles21
Rainbow Wells17.2 miles26
Valjean19.2 miles20
Zzyzx19.5 miles21
Mountain Pass19.5 miles26

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 Halloran SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5643059The 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 1667018. 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.