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Ludlow, California

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Newberry Springs-Baker census division. It lies in ZIP code area 92338. It lies near Sand Hill. The Survey maps it on the Ludlow quadrangle. 10 people lived here at the 2000 count. It stands 1,778 feet above sea level.

Ludlow within San Bernardino County

Then and now

1953 to 1977

The same ground, surveyed 24 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Ludlow, surveyed 1977
Topographic sheet of Ludlow, surveyed 1953

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

7 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Ludlow between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1 acre 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use3

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
29 July 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictBDC ASSIST 8058
15 July 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMojave National PreserveBDC ASST12
13 July 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictCRUCERO
27 June 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictLUDLOW
20 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMojave National PreserveSANTA FE
12 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictLUDLOW
31 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictSTOMP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Bernardino County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 26 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 26 workings within 5 miles of Ludlow: 11 prospects, 8 past producers, 3 occurrences, 3 unknowns. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Silver, Barium-Barite. 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
DictatorGemstoneProspect
Gold StandardGold, Silver, Copper, ManganesePast ProducerCopper
Lee Yim DepositPhosphorus-Phosphates, Aluminum, Barium-Barite, Calcium, Iron, Manganese, SilicaPast Producer1917, 1918
Mineral MonarchCopper, Gold, SilverOccurrence
Old PeteGold, Silver, Copper, LeadPast Producer1932
Unknown ProspectCopper, ZincProspect
Unnamed Clay ProspectClayOccurrence
Unnamed LocationSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unnamed ProspectGold, Copper, SilverProspect
Unnamed ProspectGold, Copper, SilverProspect

Every working recorded in San Bernardino County

Storms near this place

4 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ludlow in 4 storm reports between 2014 and 2022: 3 flash flood, 1 hail. 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
July 2022Flash FloodLudlow$10,000Flash flooding stranded a train and closed numerous roads.
October 2015Flash FloodLudlow$2,000National Trails Highway was washed out and there was a lot of mud over the road.
August 2014Flash FloodLudlow$2,000Rocks and debris flowed over National Trails Highway at Ludlow Road.
April 2019HailLudlow-Nickel size (0.88) hail fell on Interstate 40 near Ludlow.

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
Ragtown3.9 miles13
Argos4.8 miles14
Ash Hill5.7 miles12
Stedman6.3 miles13
Lavic8.1 miles14
Klondike9.1 miles12
Pisgah10.7 miles14
Broadwell10.7 miles13

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 LudlowAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q773080The 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 245290. 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.