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Lonoak, California

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the King City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93930. It lies near Peachtree Valley. The Survey maps it on the Lonoak quadrangle. It stands 883 feet above sea level.

Lonoak within Monterey County

Then and now

1915 to 1987

The same ground, surveyed 72 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Lonoak, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Lonoak, surveyed 1915

Compare 1915 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 21 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

17 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Lonoak between 1993 and 2019, burning about 3,107 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
Equipment and vehicle use11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
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
26 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined37 acresSan Benito-Monterey UnitLONOAK
20 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined36 acresSan Benito-Monterey UnitLEWIS
22 August 2005Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresSan Benito-Monterey UnitCABEU003130
11 August 2012Debris and open burning82 acresSan Benito-Monterey UnitLONOAK
7 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSan Benito-Monterey UnitCATTLEMEN
6 July 2004Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresSan Benito-Monterey UnitCABEU002528
31 July 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Benito-Monterey UnitPG&E #18
3 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Benito-Monterey UnitAIRLINE

Every fire recorded in Monterey County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Lonoak: 3 past producers, 1 producer, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
Alvarez & Tully DepositGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Eade DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lewis & Clark ClaimCopperProspect
Lewis and Clark ClaimCopperOccurrenceVein
Unnamed LocationCopperProducer
Unnamed LocationCopperPast Producer

Every working recorded in Monterey County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lonoak in 1 storm report in 2023: 1 flood. 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
January 2023FloodLonoak-A mudslide caused California Highway 25 to become completely impassable south of Lonoak.

Every storm recorded in Monterey 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
Welby9.1 miles24
Elsa10.5 miles26
King City10.7 miles23
San Lucas11.0 miles24
Coburn11.1 miles26
Docas (historical)13.4 miles25
Metz15.2 miles26
Greenfield16.2 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.

Wikipedia article on LonoakAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6674786The 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 1660942. 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.