Houze Place, California
21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Barstow census division. It lies in ZIP code area 92301. The Survey maps it on the Jackrabbit Hill quadrangle.
Then and now
1931 to 1982The same ground, surveyed 51 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1931 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
14 surveys from 21 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1931 USGS Adobe quadrangle1:24000
- 1934 USGS Adobe quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1937 USGS Kramer quadrangle1:48000
- 1942 USGS Kramer quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1947 USGS Kramer SW quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Kramer quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Jackrabbit Hill quadrangle1:24000
- 1982 USGS Victorville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Houze Place between 1998 and 2019, burning about 43 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 July 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 43 acres | California Desert District | DESERT |
| 10 June 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | San Bernardino Unit | OASIS RD PINION_HILLS |
| 24 April 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | San Bernardino Unit | not named |
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 21 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Houze Place: 9 prospects, 6 past producers, 5 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Tungsten, Uranium, Copper, Boron-Borates. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rho A | Boron-Borates, Arsenic | Occurrence | 1957 | |
| Unnamed Feldspar Occurrence | Feldspar | Occurrence | ||
| Lakeview Claims | Copper, Silver, Gold | Prospect | ||
| Nellie May Group | Copper, Silver, Gold | Past Producer | ||
| Sunray Mid-Continent Oil Co. Colemanite Deposit | Boron-Borates | Occurrence | 1958 | |
| Unnamed Prospect | Copper | Prospect | ||
| Baxter Property | Uranium | Prospect | ||
| Roll Prospect | Uranium | Prospect | ||
| Unnamed Prospect | Uranium | Prospect | ||
| Unnamed Prospect | Uranium | Prospect |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Mirage | 11.5 miles | 22 | |
| Kramer Hills (historical) | 13.4 miles | 17 | |
| Silver Lakes | 15.2 miles | 21 | |
| Kramer | 15.7 miles | 16 | |
| Helendale | 16.1 miles | 21 | |
| Kramer Junction | 16.1 miles | 16 | |
| Bryman | 16.2 miles | 21 | |
| Jimgrey | 16.6 miles | 17 |
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 Q122546849 | The 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 1660771. 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.













