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Kanawyers, California

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Sierra census division. It stands on Copper Creek. The Survey maps it on The Sphinx quadrangle. It stands 5,020 feet above sea level.

Kanawyers within Fresno County

Then and now

1903 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Kanawyers, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Kanawyers, surveyed 1903

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 29 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

71 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Kanawyers between 1992 and 2019, burning about 4,633 acres in total. 45 started naturally. 4 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
Natural45
Recreation and ceremony12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking2

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
9 September 1995Natural282 acresSequoia & Kings Canyon National ParksSPHINX
8 September 2010Naturalunder an acreSequoia & Kings Canyon National ParksGALLATS
4 September 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSequoia & Kings Canyon National ParksSPHINX CK
3 September 2003Naturalunder an acreSequoia & Kings Canyon National ParksBUBBS
26 September 1996Naturalunder an acreSequoia & Kings Canyon National ParksCANYONVIEW
25 September 1994Natural1.5 acresSequoia & Kings Canyon National ParksGRANITE
2 September 2018Naturalunder an acreSequoia & Kings Canyon National ParksSENTINEL
15 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreSequoia & Kings Canyon National ParksBAILEY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fresno County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Kanawyers: 11 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Molybdenum. 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
Buchanan ProspectMolybdenumOccurrenceChalcopyrite, Molybdenite
Buchanan ProspectMolybdenumOccurrenceVein
BaddersCopperOccurrenceVein
Unnamed OccurrenceCopperOccurrence
Unnamed OccurrenceCopperOccurrence
Unnamed OccurrenceCopperOccurrence
Unnamed OccurrenceCopperOccurrence
Unnamed OccurrenceCopperOccurrence
Unnamed OccurrenceCopperOccurrence
Unnamed OccurrenceCopperOccurrence

Every working recorded in Fresno 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
Cedar Grove4.5 miles28
Hume Station17.0 miles27
Hume17.4 miles27
Millwood (historical)22.5 miles23
Neffs Camp23.1 miles23
Cedarbrook23.3 miles23
Goodmill23.3 miles25
Etheda Springs23.5 miles23

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 Q6360839The 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 252709. 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.