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Harts Place, California

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the East Kern census division. The Survey maps it on the Freeman Junction quadrangle. It stands 3,084 feet above sea level.

Harts Place within Kern County

Then and now

1915 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Harts Place, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Harts Place, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

8 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Harts Place between 1994 and 2020, burning about 5 acres in total. None 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/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning1

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
7 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictLABOR
8 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.3 acresCentral California DistrictBADGER
3 March 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictFORD
28 February 1994Debris and open burning1.5 acresCalifornia Desert DistrictBLACK
30 November 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictWATER
20 October 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictSAGE
4 January 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictLA1
13 January 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictDIRT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kern County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Harts Place: 10 past producers, 6 producers, 3 occurrences, 2 prospects. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Pumice, Lead, Copper, Silver, Gold, 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
Big Bully ProspectUraniumOccurrence
Caltrans #178Sand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Rattle Snake GroupLead, Copper, Silver, GoldOccurrenceReplacement
Black Mountain GroupPumiceProspect
Black Mountain GroupPumiceOccurrence
CalsilcoPumicePast Producer
Opal Extension and South Opal Gp.PumiceProspect
Ora No. 1 ClaimPumicePast Producer
Angus PropertyGoldProducer
Angus PropertyGoldPast 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
Little Dixie (historical)2.9 miles26
Armistead3.4 miles23
Freeman Junction7.4 miles23
Ricardo9.0 miles26
Terese (historical)10.1 miles23
Saltdale (historical)10.3 miles26
Ceneda10.5 miles26
Redrock (historical)10.8 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.

Wikidata item Q14682120The 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 252899. 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.