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Lackey Place, California

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Lake Isabella census division. It lies near Basket Peak. The Survey maps it on the Glennville quadrangle. It stands 3,799 feet above sea level.

Lackey Place within Kern County

Then and now

1920 to 1978

The same ground, surveyed 58 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Lackey Place, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of Lackey Place, surveyed 1920

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

33 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Lackey Place between 1993 and 2018, burning about 1,500 acres in total. 11 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
Natural11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking2
Debris and open burning1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 1993Smokingunder an acreSequoia National ForestMELON
3 September 1997Naturalunder an acreSequoia National ForestLONE
3 September 1997Naturalunder an acreSequoia National ForestBASKET
27 September 2005Naturalunder an acreSequoia National ForestBROWN
15 September 2018Recreation and ceremony15 acresSequoia National ForestBASKET
28 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSequoia National ForestBRADSHAW
26 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCentral California DistrictCOMMERCIAL
20 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined167 acresKern County Fire DepartmentFLAT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kern County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Lackey Place: 8 prospects, 5 past producers, 4 producers, 4 occurrences. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Uranium, Gold, Silver. 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
Blue ChiefGold, SilverProducer
Petit RanchUraniumProducer
Pettit RanchUraniumOccurrence
Alberta No. 1Gold, SilverProspect
ApexGold, SilverProspect
Blue ChiefGold, SilverPast Producer
HangoverGold, SilverPast Producer
IndependenceGold, SilverProspect
Pay OffGold, SilverProspect
Royal Top Lode Mining ClaimGold, SilverProspect

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
Pettit Place1.6 miles25
Petersburg (historical)3.1 miles24
Miracle Hot Springs (historical)7.1 miles24
Keyesville7.2 miles25
Shirley Meadows7.2 miles25
Glennville7.3 miles23
Alta Sierra8.4 miles25
Bodfish8.7 miles28

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 Q6468729The 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 1660871. 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.