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Landers, California

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Twentynine Palms-Yucca Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 92285. The Survey maps it on the Landers quadrangle. It stands 3,084 feet above sea level.

Landers within San Bernardino County

Then and now

1953 to 1982

The same ground, surveyed 29 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Landers, surveyed 1982
Topographic sheet of Landers, surveyed 1953

On record in Landers

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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

34 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Landers between 1992 and 2020, burning about 126 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
21 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCalifornia Desert DistrictRICHY
12 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictPINE
1 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Bernardino Unitnot named
4 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictDUMP
29 August 1998Smokingunder an acreSan Bernardino UnitSMALL SPOT
17 August 2015Naturalunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictDUMP
9 July 1998Naturalunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictSTARFIRE
4 June 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Bernardino UnitHOPI

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Bernardino County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Landers: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Niobium (Columbium), Tantalum, REE, Thorium, Lead, Zinc, 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
California - HerculesLead, Zinc, SilverOccurrenceVein
Rock Corral AreaNiobium (Columbium), Tantalum, REE, ThoriumOccurrenceAllanite, Euxenite

Every working recorded in San Bernardino County

Storms near this place

10 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Landers in 10 storm reports between 2011 and 2022: 7 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 lightning, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2018Flash FloodLanders$500,000Major flash flooding occurred in the Morongo Basin. A spotter recorded 2.27 inches of rain between midnight and 630 AM PDT. Many roads were flooded or washed out, and numerous vehicles, including a fire truck, were either washed off the roads or stuck in flood waters and/or mud. Three water lines were broken, leaving many customers without water for up to 36 hours.
October 2015LightningLanders$10,000Lightning knocked out power to over 4000 customers and set fire to a palm tree between Landers and Twentynine Palms.
August 2013Flash FloodLanders$5,000Six to 12 inches of water and mud flowed across Highway 247 at Reche Road and also Belfield Blvd. at Encantado Blvd. in Landers. One vehicle was washed away.
October 2015Flash FloodLanders$2,000A vehicle was stuck in a flooded wash on Winter Road.
August 2022Flash FloodLanders$1,000The intersection of Lilac and Acoma was flooded. The spotter measured 0.66 of rain in 25 minutes.
June 2015Flash FloodLanders$1,000Water, rocks, and debris flowed over Linn Road and Belfield Boulevard. A nearby spotter reported half an inch of rain in less than half an hour.
July 2015Flash FloodLanders$1,000Water one foot deep flowed over Reche Road at Sunny Vista.
August 2012Flash FloodLanders$1,000Six inches of water along with rocks and debris flowed across Avalon Avenue between Winters and Aberdeen.
July 2015Tornado (EF0)Landers-Two landspouts were photographed in open desert just north of Landers. No damage occurred.
September 2011HailLanders-no account filed

Every storm 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
Flamingo Heights3.0 miles15
Hidden River7.5 miles14
Pioneertown9.3 miles15
Sunfair Heights9.4 miles15
Rimrock9.8 miles29
Joshua Tree10.0 miles14
Sunfair10.5 miles15
Yucca Valley10.7 miles15

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 LandersAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6484434The 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 244564. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.